Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's emergency rules banning flavored e-cigarettes were released Wednesday without a ban on "flavored alternative nicotine" products, which had been in an earlier rules draft.
Republican-dominated conference committees Thursday passed out slender spending increases for pubic K-12 schools, community colleges and universities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 amid Democratic concerns that R's were prioritizing roads ahead of school children.
Lawmakers want to expand Michigan's expungement laws in a way they say will give hundreds of thousands of residents with old, low-level criminal convictions a clean record.
House and Senate Republican leadership gave their appropriations subcommittee chairs their final targeted spending amounts Thursday and instructed them to begin pushing out conference committee budgets this week, MIRS has learned.
Yesterday State Representative Tommy Brann (R-Wyoming), a small business owner himself, dropped off the long-awaited bi-partisan legislative package focused on small business growth called Entrepreneurship Led Economic Development (E-LED).
Republican legislative leaders submitted a menu of additional road-funding options to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Thursday, some she'd seen before like bonding against the teacher retirement system. Some she had not.
The Michigan Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging what it calls the "unfair and unconstitutional proposed redistricting committee."
(EAST LANSING) -- Historic rainfall, flash flooding, excessive snow, tornadoes, extreme cold, and the China trade war have negatively impacted Michigan farmers and every resident will feel the impact.
Bad as it would be for Asian carp to get into the Great Lakes, new research from the University of Michigan shows the damage would be even worse than previously estimated.
Dashboard or letter grades -- it's been the ongoing debate in the education community of how best to measure and display school performance.
The bonding-against-teacher-pensions plan floated as a way to free up road funding would cost taxpayers $13 billion less than the current debt repayment plan, as well as $26 billion less than extending the repayment schedule …
Harnessing Michigan’s Hidden Talent By Brian Calley No one knows better than small businesses how tight the labor market is. We have essentially been at full employment for a couple […]
Fresh off of a victory in the U.S. House -- which voted 231-199 recently to bump the minimum wage to $15 per hour -- U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) called last week for the pay rate …
Besides dodging potholes and orange barrels, Michigan drivers this summer may also find themselves encountering several raccoons staring down at them from billboards beside the road.Besides dodging potholes and orange barrels, Michigan drivers this summer …
Whether Republican lawmakers could legally scale back the minimum wage and paid sick leave citizens initiatives in lame duck is now in the Michigan Supreme Court's hands.
The three biggest health plans in Michigan's individual market are projecting rate decreases on their health insurance plans in 2020, according to their proposed plans filed with the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services …
When it comes to business development there are tons of programs to assist with access to capital for start-ups or to help larger corporations expand, but the companies in the “middle”, otherwise known as second-stage …
(CHARLOTTE) -- It's not certain yet if consumers will feel a price hike at the grocery store, but this spring's heavy rains will have a long-term impact on Michigan, the state agriculture department director said …