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FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers her State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Jan. 25, 2023, at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Randall Berka II, a mentally ill Michigan man, is accused of posting various written threats on a YouTube channel, the FBI said in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday, March 10. According to the complaint, Berka said “biden deserves to die,” a reference to President Joe Biden, and that he was “more than willing tot kill whitmer,” a reference to Whitmer. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Watch Live: 2024 Michigan State of the State

Listen to live, special coverage of Whitmer’s address, the Republican response and analysis beginning this evening at 7 p.m. on Michigan Public.

Curtis Hertel (D) and Tom Barrett (R) marched with supporters in the Brighton 4th of July Parade. They are competing for Michigan's District 7 Congressional seat.

Michigan's 7th Congressional District candidates hit parade to campaign

Brighton's 4th of July parade featured the two major candidates competing for Michigan's 7th congressional district.

Anti-abortion protesters march past the Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Ind., after the Rally for Life march in January 2023. The facility offers birth control and testing for sexually transmitted diseases now that abortion is banned in Indiana.

Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting

Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response.

Michigan gubernatorial candidates making new efforts to get onto August primary ballots

Several Republican candidates who were disqualified from Michigan's gubernatorial primary ballot earlier this month are making efforts to revert those decisions.

FILE - Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., right, who is running for Senate, speaks at a Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump campaign event in Freeland, Mich., May 1, 2024. Fraudulent signatures could upend Michigan's Congressional races this year as all the declared GOP candidates for U.S. Senate face new calls to investigate their attempts to get on the August primary ballot and a Democratic U.S. House candidate appears likely to fall short. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)

Potential signature fraud in Michigan threatens to disrupt congressional races

Each declared GOP U.S. Senate candidate faces calls to investigate signatures on their nominating petitions, and a Democratic U.S. House candidate might not make the cut.

Michael Kruzich holds a photo of his late mother Donna during an interview Monday, April 15, 2024, in Lansing, Mich. Donna Kruzich was one of dozens of people in the U.S. who died after being injected with tainted steroids made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. Now, more than a decade later, the operator of the New England Compounding Center is returning to a Michigan court to be sentenced on involuntary manslaughter charges. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Pharmacist blamed for deaths in US meningitis outbreak will plead no contest in Michigan case

Prosecutors in Michigan have struck a deal with a pharmacist who is blamed for deaths from a national meningitis outbreak in 2012.

An abridged history of Michigan’s rent control ban

Here’s a timeline of events from the mid- to late-1980s, when rent control was a hot topic in Michigan.

Ann Arbor police prepare to remove protesters and their encampment from the University of Michigan Diag.

Fired employee says UM violated her free speech rights when it terminated her employment

The University of Michigan fired an employee last Friday for her alleged conduct at a pro-Palestine protest in May 2024, when she was a student.

Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says

Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.

Michigan ranks No. 2 for power outages

Advocates say Michigan’s poor performance compared to neighboring states shows a failure by state regulators to ensure that utilities adequately invest in the grid.

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