The price of a historic Michigan resource rides a roller coaster. Could it lead to a copper mining revival? Plus, how Detroit helped build the comics culture of today.

Commentator John U. Bacon joins Michigan Public's Doug Tribou to discuss Big Ten women's basketball, U.S. Olympic hockey glory, and a bright spot for the Detroit Tigers.

It will help if readers are familiar with slapstick movies from the early 1900s — Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Three Stooges, and the like. Specifically the classic bit with a guy carrying a long board on his shoulder and — as he navigates safely through a construction site — unknowingly and repeatedly clobbering people with the back end of the board.

In 2013, Senita Lenear became the first Black woman elected to the Grand Rapids City Commission. She joined Michigan Public to look back on her breakthrough career.

Bills to expand the sale of raw milk made it out of committee and to the full Michigan House of Representatives Thursday.

Michigan Democratic Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin sent U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a letter this week, demanding that she halt plans to make a Romulus commercial warehouse into an ICE detention center.

The Great Lakes Water Authority board approved an average 5.8% increase for water services, while raising sewer rates by just over 4% on average.

Detroit public school students are asking the district to recognize Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, as a holiday for Muslim students. Ramadan began on February 17 this year and lasts until March 19.

A look at Governor Gretchen Whitmer's State of the State address. Plus, one of this year's Rhodes Scholars from Michigan is a UM alum. Then, Detroit high school students advocate for accommodations during Ramadan, and a Michigan judge remembers the life and career of Lucile Watts, the first African-American woman elected to a Michigan circuit court.

After years of legal wrangling, energy company Enbridge has finally started rerouting an aging oil pipeline around a tribal reservation in northern Wisconsin.

Lawyers say China’s government intervened and helped get charges dropped against three Chinese scientists at the University of Michigan.

Customers want to read reviews and businesses need reviews to attract customers. But the constant demand for reviews could be creating a feedback backlash, experts say.