Michigan has been fortunate to have few recent attacks on voting rights from the state Legislature, but a House ...

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. The first fatal shooting ...

For Elsa Caín-Yuqilema of Ecuador, language expresses one’s culture and when a language is lost, its culture will also vanish ...

Gathering in Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel on Wednesday, State Sens. Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton) and Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) joined Skillman Foundation President and CEO Angelique Power to discuss ...

University of Florida President-elect Santa Ono could receive $3 million per year if the State University System’s Board of Governors confirms him this week. The proposed contract between UF and Ono ...

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MACKINAC ISLAND – Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature say they plan to support an initiative to hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the document. The proposal automatically appears ...

Enbridge Energy’s controversial Line 5 tunnel project will move forward to a 30-day public comment period after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released a draft environmental impact ...

During the annual women in leadership panel at the Mackinac Policy conference, leaders from the public and private sectors spoke out against growing federal efforts opposing diversity, equity and ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Sleeping Bear Dunes have been active systems for millennia, shifting with ...

PARKERSBURG, IOWA — At a sometimes raucous town hall meeting Friday morning, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst faced vocal opposition to her support for spending cuts to programs such as Medicaid and SNAP. Like ...

Republican lawmakers in Michigan’s state House are looking to expand the classes home-school students can take at public schools by repealing a state law against using state school aid to fund core ...