Colin Jackson

The Michigan House of Representatives voted Tuesday to erase the state’s clean energy standards. Under the current law, Michigan needs to rely entirely on clean energy by the end of the next decade.

State of Michigan emergency resources are now helping out after a water main broke over the weekend in Oakland County.Officials say a 42-inch water line broke Sunday morning, causing flooding and interrupted service in parts of Oakland County.

The same day its former leader was charged with 16 felonies, a nonprofit meant to attract international business to Michigan demanded the state reinstate its funding.

The Attorney General's office says Fay Beydoun used more than $1 million of state grant money for her own purposes.

Arguments over the fate of nine bills that passed the Michigan Legislature in 2024, but never made it to the governor, will happen before the state Supreme Court Wednesday morning.

A bill to make state records easier to find is working its way through the Michigan House of Representatives.State agencies frequently release reports to the Legislature. But state Representative Joseph Aragona (R-Clinton Twp) said they’re sometimes hard to find since each agency has its own system for handling them and posting them online.

The state Attorney General’s office had accused a former Adams Township Clerk of illegally sharing election data with unauthorized people after the 2020 presidential election.

The Michigan Senate passed the rest of its proposals for the next state budget Thursday. That includes a $25 billion spending plan to fund K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. The plan would raise per-student funding by around $250 per student. It would also continue free school meals, put $300 million toward mental health and school safety grants, and $235 million toward helping children read.

The bill package would stop kids from using social media without parental consent, ban targeted advertising directed at kids, and create new restrictions on AI chatbots available to children.

The Senate plan would raise spending, even as the state faces a revenue shortfall. It also comes in around $12 billion over the state House's spending target.