Michigan news

Helping win a Democratic House majority, supporting economic development, and advocating for abortion rights. Those are among highlights the outgoing Michigan House Minority Leader listed about her time in office. Representative Donna Lasinski (D-Scio Twp) spoke to reporters during a media roundtable Wednesday.

Michigan’s public health, food and sanitary codes are among policy focus areas for local health officials in the new year.

Officials said temperatures were too cold for road salt to be effective, blowing snow was hampering visibility, and snowdrifts were building up along highways.

The very large, very cold winter storm that's swept across the U.S. has snarled travel for many trying to get home for the holidays.

For more than 120 years, volunteers have taken a day to count and identify birds for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.

Special master Deborah Greenspan Deborah said processing all the paperwork submitted by last June has taken much longer than expected.

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers said “no” Wednesday to almost all efforts to toss out votes cast in elections for two questions on the November ballot. The recounts of a few selected precincts proceeded despite the fact they had no chance of reversing the statewide results on Proposals 2 and 3.

Just as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, an arctic front in the Midwest and and record-breaking cold temperatures along the Gulf Coast and in the Eastern U.S. could bring dangerous conditions.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer said she expects the new Democratic-majority Legislature will pick up a lot of business in January that was left undone in the lame duck session.

The acquisition is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023. The agreement still needs final regulatory approval.