2025 Election
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Unofficial results show Lansing Mayor Andy Schor won about two-thirds of the vote in Tuesday's election.
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Lester Graham/Michigan RadioMichigan bills to restart tracking abortion data — including patients' marital status, racial and ethnic background, and pregnancy history — will get a hearing in the Republican-led House Committee on Health Policy. -
FILE PHOTO: Bryce Huffman/Michigan PublicA Michigan Court of Claims judge has set a hearing date for later this month on the state’s motion to dismiss a marijuana industry lawsuit challenging a new tax on weed.
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Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and modern-day work to restore the plant. -
Open flames and propane are prohibited in an encampment of unhoused community members in Old Town Lansing under a court order. -
Officials say it’s the only time dating back at least two decades that City Council members have rescinded a make safe or demolish order. -
With his sweeping pardons, Trump has effectively shielded those who challenged the 2020 election results from federal prosecution, however state charges and potential appeals loom on the horizon. -
After a week of whiplash in which federal food aid benefits were closed off, then opened, then closed again, Michigan now says SNAP recipients "should receive full benefit payments on their normally scheduled date." -
The emails, released through a FOIA request, deal with the fallout of comments made by East Lansing Police Chief Jen Brown that some labeled racist. -
New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley's latest novel "Sisters in the Wind" returns to Michigan's Indigenous communities to tell a story about foster care. -
In his new book, John U. Bacon says science, weather and the Fitzgerald's cargo can help explain why the ship sank to the bottom of Lake Superior during a treacherous storm in 1975. -
Scientists studying the body size and growth patterns of non-native earthworms in the UP say they are disrupting forest ecosystems. -
The decision comes after years of outcry from some farmers that the cost of labor, transportation and housing for H-2A workers was making it impossible to break even.
