A Republican-sponsored bill would cap solar energy at 20% of Michigan's grid and restrict where solar farms can be built.

On this Stateside episode, James Jesse Strang — the self-professed Mormon prophet and successor to Joseph Smith who, for a few years in the 1840s and 50s, ruled as the pirate king of a Mormon “utopia” on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. Also, a recipe for a scone-based riff on strawberry shortcakes, and a “bitcoin mining farm” in the eastern UP.

A ballot campaign planning to launch soon would ask voters to ban political donations from committees affiliated with utility monopolies and public contractors.

That self-imposed deadline is Tuesday — but the proposed education budgets passed by the Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate are extremely different.

Michigan chef Abra Berens brough us her recipe for a versatile riff on strawberry shortcake.

The case began when Michigan sued in state court to partially shut down Line 5. It got moved to federal court at the request of the Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge.

The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030.

Whitefish have survived and fed Michiganders for centuries. It's synonymous with Great Lakes food and Great Lakes living. But things have taken a bittersweet tone as the whitefish near collapse.

With the words "disinterested" and "uninterested," it’s not that a distinction has been lost, but rather that a distinction has been intentionally created.

M.L. Elrick has spent decades covering local governments in southeast Michigan in the muckraking tradition. He joined Stateside to discuss recent investigations and why local investigations are so important.

President Trump said Friday that he was suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called "a direct and blatant attack on our country."

Local authorities said a man armed with a rifle started a fire on a mountain in northern Idaho and then began shooting at responding firefighters, killing two and injuring a third.