Housing and homeless aid providers call for more funding, more affordable housing following deaths of two Detroit children in parking garage

Advocates say Michigan’s $4 million 'shelter diversion' pilot program is keeping people off the streets by helping pay for rent, utilities, transportation and more. Is it time to take it statewide?

Bipartisan deal would raise Michigan’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2027 but preserve a lower tipped credit for restaurant workers. It depends on a separate deal over paid sick days – which lawmakers have not yet agreed to.

One year into a Michigan law allowing removal of guns from at-risk individuals, proponents say it’s “working exactly the way we intended.”

As Michigan lawmakers fight over sick leave and wage changes, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposes delaying implementation until July.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing more spending on schools, housing and more. But her $84B budget does not include a long-term road funding plan, which she’s still working on.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says a new $10M fund will help businesses invest in affordable worker housing: ‘If we don't face the crisis head on, it's going to continue to hamstring our economy.’

As Michigan House adopts new rules for funding pet projects, Senate OKs plan to open governor and Legislature to public records requests.

US Sen. Gary Peters will not seek reelection in 2026, setting up another fierce battle for an open Michigan US Senate seat.

Michigan lawmakers aim to change minimum wage and sick leave laws before they take effect next month. Here’s how.

House lawmakers are expected to vote on amending minimum wage, sick leave laws in the coming days. Their plan would exempt 1 of 3 workers from sick leave mandates.

Michigan’s business, restaurant industry officials flock to Lansing urging changes to pending sick leave, tipped wage laws.

Michigan is one of two states that fully exempts the governor and lawmakers from public records requests. House Speaker Matt Hall says he is focused on other transparency measures.

Michigan lawmakers are again promising transparency. Skeptics say it may take a ballot proposal to get it done.

Saginaw is the only Michigan county to vote for every presidential winner since 2008, including Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden — and Trump again. Local experts explain why.

While House lawmakers calling it quits for the year, the Senate worked through the night in a record 29-hour meeting. Here’s what’s headed to the governor.

Government transparency, gun reforms, polluter pay proposals among more than 250 bills that died as the Michigan House abruptly adjourned for the year, ending Democratic control of the lower chamber.

Michigan Senators Wednesday approved nearly $250 million in project incentives but left out money for a UP mine in the process.

Michigan awards its 15 Electoral College votes to President-elect Donald Trump — with fanfare and without incident.