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The U.S. House Appropriations Committee just passed a bill that contains some pretty major cuts to Great Lakes funding.There are a couple of things being…

In her debut novel, Iranian-American Sara Farizan tells the story of two teenage girls, secretly in love. Sahar faces a crisis when she discovers Nasrin is engaged, and considers gender-reassignment surgery as a way for them to stay together. Farizan speaks with NPR's Jacki Lyden about the book and her own struggle with her sexual orientation.

One Michigan township wants to make special deals with oil and gas drillers. State law does not allow townships to regulate oil and gas drilling. But with…

A battle over how to pay for emergency harbor dredging is brewing in Lansing. State Senator John Moolenaar (R-Midland) is sponsoring a bill that would…

A new report from the Brookings Institution says more people in Michigan are riding the rails to Chicago and back.The three rail lines in the state…

If you don't think you like bitter foods, try them again. Jennifer McLagan, the author of Bitter: A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, is on a mission to change hearts and minds.

This week's episode of Alt.Latino features a biting new track by the Puerto Rican rap duo. In "Multi_Viral," the band intersperses its own commentary on the media with a spoken-word passage by the controversial founder of WikiLeaks.

It's a case that has turned into a political football for the conservative and liberal incarnations of the Michigan Supreme Court.In an order released…

Six years ago, when President Obama first took office, the United States was in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Unemployment was…

I will be sixty-three years old in three months, and this was the first morning since I was three that I woke up and John Dingell wasn’t a member of…