"Where were they for nine months?" said Brian Roell, the DNR's large carnivore specialist. "That's a mystery."

Officials in rural areas and small cities reported the highest levels of financial discomfort in a new study from the University of Michigan that surveyed 1,328 counties, cities, villages and townships.

Contamination in a Cheboygan County wetland has spread, and clean up is taking longer than regulators anticipated.

The state is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe.

In a year-end interview, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks looked back on an unusually slow legislative session, the impacts of previously-passed data center laws and working with House Republicans in divided government.

Dodgeball isn’t something just played in gym classes, rather, a nationally growing college club sport that MSU excels in.

The Michigan Legislature adjourned Thursday for the year, ending a 2025 session where a politically divided House and Senate often struggled to reach deals.The marathon final day saw roughly two dozen mostly mundane bills clear both chambers, capping a session on track to enact the fewest number of new laws in any year since Michigan became a state.

Carrie Edwards-Clemons was named interim fire chief as the Lansing Fire Department faces a lawsuit against outgoing Chief Brian Sturdivant.

Michigan energy regulators conditionally approved a request Thursday to fast-track approval of contracts to power a planned data center near Ann Arbor.

The City of Lansing will cover the cost for residents of the Dietrich Park homeless encampment to stay at one hotel for at least six weeks.