The Republican state House speaker and the Democratic Senate majority leader both say they'd support withholding lawmakers' pay if the Legislature misses a budget deadline.

Duggan credited Sheffield with being a leader who could both work with his office, and challenge him on certain policies.

A live, onstage conversation with Pete Buttigieg, former South Bend mayor, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and current Michigan resident. The former Democratic presidential candidate discusses the deep divisions in American society, the future of the Democratic Party, and the enormous - and not necessarily comprehensible - impact of artificial intelligence. Plus, his political future.

Michigan's state budget negotiations haven't yielded much progress. Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service looks at the chances of a state government shutdown.

The state Legislature funded the entire Cold Case Program last year. Its status in the next budget is uncertain.

Republicans say weak whistleblower protection laws in Michigan are stopping government employees and contractors from reporting malfeasance.

A new Trump administration policy would take funding from crime victims' groups that don’t share information with immigration authorities.

The suffering of America's gun violence crisis is concentrated in Black neighborhoods damaged by decades of disinvestment and racial discrimination. Trump is unravelling efforts to solve the problem.

A range of crime data has been going around to make the argument that Washington, D.C., is — or isn't — safe. We talk to crime experts to make sense of it all.

Michigan is joining more than a dozen other states in suing the U.S. Department of Energy over a policy that reduces funding to help states run energy efficiency programs.