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'Star Wars: Ahsoka' has a Jedi with two light sabers but not much else. Yet.

A fan-favorite is finally getting her own series. But why is it so boring?

Nothing this year brought home the dangers in private ownership of major social media platforms more than the capricious, often-destructive and regularly unpredictable actions of Twitter CEO Elon Musk. He is pictured above at Tesla's "Gigafactory" in Germany on March 22, 2022.

Six ways media took a big step backward in 2022

Elon Musk caused Twitter chaos, the streaming industry hit adolescence, late night TV lost its footing, there were lots of layoffs and some dispiriting indications of compassion fatigue.

A car accident is cleared at an intersection without power in Charlotte, N.C., on Dec. 24, 2022. Auto insurance costs are soaring — well outpacing overall inflation.

4 reasons why your car insurance premium is soaring

The cost of car insurance has jumped more than 19% in the last year, far outpacing overall inflation. There are several reasons why that's happening.

An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 at the Mackinaw City, Mich., pump station sits on Oct. 7, 2016. A federal judge on Friday, June 16, 2023, ordered energy company Enbridge to shut down within three years parts of the oil pipeline that traverses the northern Wisconsin territory of a Native American tribe and to pay the tribe more than $5 million for trespassing on its property.

Judge gives Enbridge 3 years to close oil pipeline on tribal land in Wisconsin

A federal judge gives Enbridge three years to shut down a section of Line 5 that crosses reservation land and pay one tribe more than $5 million for trespassing.

United Auto Workers members walk the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Biden is coming to Michigan to join the UAW picket line

Experts in presidential and U.S. labor history say they cannot recall an instance where a sitting president has joined an ongoing strike.

Local and state officials thanked the State of Michigan for launching a program to help local road agencies mitigate wetland destruction more cheaply and easily.

Wetland banks save cities, townships, and counties money for building roads

Buying wetlands on the commercial market is expensive. The state of Michigan set up a program to give municipal road agencies a way to mitigate damage to wetlands more cheaply.

NOAA's America's Coastlines Collection Location: Michigan, Detroit River

Detroit residents angry over permit allowing Grosse Pointe Park to dump sewage into Detroit River

Grosse Pointe Park's "extreme emergency relief valve" has caused outrage among Jefferson-Chalmers residents.

The headquarters for National Public Radio in Washington on April 15, 2013.

NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs

NPR moved this week to cut 10% of its staff and stop production of a handful of podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot and Rough Translation.

Google is headed to trial in Washington D.C., where it will defend itself over the Justice Department's claims that it abused its monopoly power in its search engine business.

United States takes on Google in biggest tech monopoly trial of 21st century

The biggest antitrust trial in nearly 25 years kicks off on Tuesday as the Justice Department makes its case that Google is an illegal monopoly.

Vladimir Konstantinov, a white male with a bald head, is in a gray shirt with a look of concentration on his face and Uno cards in his hand. He is playing with his caretaker Natalie, a woman with short gray hair, glasses, and a surgical mask. She is wearing a blue shirt. They are sitting at a wooden table.

Collision Course Part 3: Head On

Around 1,500 catastrophically injured people in Michigan have already lost home care services because of reforms to Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance laws. Red Wings hockey legend Vladimir Konstantinov may soon join their ranks.

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