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Right to Life takes next step toward vote on new abortion restriction

The anti-abortion group Right to Life of Michigan has wrapped up its petition drive and is getting ready to turn in its signatures.The group wants the…

The Biden administration is expanding new community mental health and addiction centers in response to the mental health crisis in the U.S.

Michigan ahead of curve in opening new kind of community mental health and addiction clinics

The Biden administration is increasing funding for a new kind of mental health clinic, first established by legislation introduced in 2015 by Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow. The clinics offer a full range of mental health care services, to anyone in the community who needs it, regardless of ability to pay or insurance status.

a wild turkey standing outside the door of a southeast Michigan store

Stateside Podcast: Wild turkeys take to Michigan streets

Michiganders, even in cities, have been seeing wild turkeys wandering down streets and up driveways. Are we crazy, or are we really seeing the birds where we’ve never seen them before? And… are they tasty? We had so many wild turkey questions, we had to turn to an expert for answers.

Michigan set to get part of $26 billion opioid settlement

Michigan expects to get a portion of a $26 billion multi-state agreement with some leading opioid distributors that received final approval Friday.

The U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling on the access of mifepristone, the widely used medical abortion drug, Friday. The case was brought to the high court after a federal judge decided earlier this month that he FDA improperly approved the pill 23 years ago.

Supreme Court blocks lower court decision in case on FDA approval of abortion pill

The Supreme Court has left the case in the hands of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has scheduled oral arguments in the case for May 17.

Dark money network funding marijuana local ballot proposals

Voters in small towns and cities across Michigan are deciding tomorrow whether to lift local bans on marijuana businesses. But the funding sources behind many of these proposals are hazy.

Pat Schroeder speaks to a reporter during an interview at the Los Angeles Convention Center on April 30, 1999. Schroeder, a former Colorado representative and pioneer for women's and family rights in Congress, died March 13, 2023, at the age of 82.

Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women's rights, dies at 82

Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.

Resident Stephanie Kerwin, center, holds her baby Octavius in one arm and dog Pixie in the other as she and her family carry what they could salvage from her home in Nottingham Forest Mobile Home Park on Saturday in Gaylord, Mich., following a tornado the day before.

2 people were killed in a rare tornado that hit northern Michigan

The tornado that struck the town of Gaylord also left more than 40 people injured. The governor has declared a state of emergency.

Residents drop mail-in ballots in an official ballot box outside of a Milwaukee library on Oct. 20, 2020.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court says ballot drop boxes aren't allowed in the state

The decision lays out ground rules for absentee voting a month ahead of Wisconsin's statewide primary elections.

An orchestra performs music on a tan stage

Prisoner orchestras at Nazi Auschwitz camp remembered in University of Michigan concerts

During World War II, at many of of the Nazis’ death camps in Germany and Poland, musicians were forced to perform in prisoner orchestras. They arranged songs to suit the instruments they had available. Now, musicians from the University of Michigan are performing 10 of those songs in the way they would have been performed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

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