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Got any ideas on how Michigan can become carbon neutral by 2050?

This week the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is holding the first of two online sessions to listen to people’s thoughts what to…

Fred Gray and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., break into laughter at a joke told by a speaker at a political rally in Tuskegee, Ala., on April 29, 1966. King once called Gray the "chief counsel" of the civil rights movement.

Fred Gray was 'chief counsel' of the civil rights era. At 91, he's still in the fight

As a young attorney, Gray helped defend some of the biggest names of the civil rights movement. If his life had a motto, it would be, as he often says, "To destroy everything segregated I could find."

Steve Bova (center) traveled from Maryland to Los Angeles with the "People's Convoy" to protest covid-19 restrictions. Despite using a phrase that originated with the abortion rights movement, he opposes abortion.

'My body, my choice': How vaccine foes co-opted the abortion rallying cry

Anti-vaccine advocates have repurposed a catchy, succinct, and potent slogan. Its unlikely source: the reproductive rights movement, which has been linked to the phrase for more than 50 years.

Michigan civil rights advocates join legal fight against Trump's travel ban

President Donald Trump and federal agencies are being sued in Detroit over his revised ban on travel to the U.S. by people from six predominantly Muslim…

Diana Goetsch writes about her later-in-life transition in the memoir, <em>This Body I Wore.</em>

At 58, poet Diana Goetsch finally feels right in her own skin

Goetsch grew up in a time when she didn't have the language to help her understand what it meant to be trans. She chronicles her later-in-life transition in the memoir is This Body I Wore.

Expected report: Michigan undercounted COVID-19 long-term care facility deaths by nearly 30%

State officials familiar with an upcoming audit said it claims Michigan likely undercounted COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities by almost 30%.

Dr. Kara Beasley protests the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Denver, Colorado on June 24, 2022.

Doctors weren't considered in Dobbs, but now they're on abortion's legal front lines

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

Amanda Darche with the Ingham County Health department says she's seen how prescription opioid abuse can lead to heroin use.

Michigan drug overdoses were trending down before COVID-19 pandemic

Drug overdoses in Michigan were on a downward trend before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human…

a small orange brown butterfly sits on top of a yellow flower

Stateside: More people eligible for welfare; Pure Michigan’s impact; state’s most endangered species

Today on Stateside, more people will be eligible for welfare benefits like food stamps and cash assistance under new rules rolled out by Governor Gretchen…

FBI agents document evidence outside a bureau field office in Kenwood, Ohio, on Aug. 11, after an armed man tried to breach the building. He fled and was later killed by law enforcement, authorities said.

An attempted attack on an FBI office raises concerns about violent far-right rhetoric

Far-right extremists escalated their violent rhetoric after an FBI search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. An attempted breach of an Ohio FBI office has those tracking extremism worried.

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