During the COVID pandemic, Michigan’s unemployment insurance agency disbursed billions of dollars to people after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shuttered many businesses. Five years later, the Michigan ...

Housing has become so expensive, a Michigan legislator said recently, that prospective homebuyers hope for a recession, anticipating it would bring down prices. That glum prospect, along with ideas ...

Michigan House leadership held hearings in early March to review $911 million of legislators’ district grant requests — a new process that gives closer attention to legislatively directed spending, ...

Michiganders will have a chance Nov. 4 to decide whether to incur more public debt, with residents of 27 school districts deciding the fate of $1.6 billion worth of new bonds, according to the ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has shifted to an antitrust legal strategy in her long-awaited lawsuit against several oil giants. The lawsuit against BP PLC, Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., ...

Michigan taxpayers have dumped billions of dollars into the automotive industry for nearly 30 years but the state has lost 287,300 manufacturing jobs over that time. Michigan’s manufacturing workforce ...

As Michigan faces higher energy costs and looming climate mandates, the state House is considering bills that its sponsors say will give consumers and businesses relief from high utility bills. House ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel used an antitrust lawsuit to blame oil companies for the failure of electric vehicles and solar panels to be more widely used in Michigan. The lawsuit against BP ...

This year’s lengthy state budget negotiations drew increasing attention to the state’s taxpayer giveaways — including more than $10 million in arts grants awarded to organizations through the Michigan ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a U.S. district court to declare that Michigan can’t use state law to regulate carbon emissions nationwide. It did so as part of a lawsuit it filed April 2025 ...

On May 30, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Michigan in the federal court. The 22-page lawsuit names Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel as defendants, Bloomberg first reported.

The East Lansing City Council is grappling with budget woes that could spiral into insolvency over the next five years, according to a local publication that closely studied the city's funding issues.