Sometimes we don’t realize that we’re using a trademarked term differently from those around us.

Organizers want one minimum wage in Michigan, not the current system that will let employers pay tipped workers half of what everyone else makes.

After a formal opinion from the Michigan attorney general undid Republican budget cuts, the GOP is asking a judge to allow the cuts to go forward temporarily while they argue in court that they should be permanent.

A first-hand account from a neighbor who observed a 30-hour standoff between law enforcement and a resident who was experiencing a mental health crisis and wielding a sword in Ypsilanti.

Commentator John U. Bacon discusses changes for the Michigan football program, a bizarre disruption at a Michigan State men's basketball game, and more sports news.

But I'm stuck on sadness and bitterness for now and expect to remain there for a while. Sadness because of the loss of life. Not just Ms. Good but for all the human beings that have suffered (and will suffer) because our wannabe dictator needs to keep his base frothing with fear and anger.

One year later, musicians who lost essential instruments and home studio set-ups in the Los Angeles fires are still picking up the pieces.

Commissioned by NPR in partnership with Ipsos, the poll also highlights sharp partisan divides on key foreign policy issues.

Benson predicts health care will be among the top issues during this year’s election. Yet some of her ideas have struggled in the state Legislature in recent years, even with her party in charge.

The crowd called for an end to immigration enforcement in the community after an officer shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Michigan officials have been trying for years to shut down Enbridge's Line 5 over claims that it is unsafe and liable to spill petroleum products into the Great Lakes

A unanimous three-judge panel held the University of Michigan research is confidential intellectual property that is exempt from the state’s Freedom of Information Act.