Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is including funding for secondary road patrol grants to mostly rural counties, veteran service grants, a "critical access" hospital rate increase and $1 million for the autism navigator program as part of her …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed 147 line-items, including $375 million in one-time road funding and $128 million from the School Aid budget, before signing all 16 state budgets last Monday, according to a press release issued by …
How local governments decide who can operate medical pot shops in their jurisdictions has been described as a "nightmare" that has spurred litigation, and some believe it's only going to get worse once the state's …
Customers who choose a lower level of personal injury protection (PIP) coverage in their auto insurance will have to sign a form confirming their choice every time they renew under the new auto insurance law …
The House and Senate passed 15 Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 department budgets Sept. 24 with no direct input from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is expected to line-item veto large portions of the spending documents by …
The state hasn't even begun accepting recreational marijuana business licenses, but nearly half of Michigan's communities have already opted out of having them in their boundaries.
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.
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 …
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 …