Michigan Government News

I remember when the Michigan Legislature toughened the requirements for high school graduation.

At a time when the prices of all types of energy are soaring, and Michigan citizens are desperate for solutions to help them reduce their energy costs, the Michigan Senate astonishingly voted, on a virtual ...

Three California men are dead and two Michigan men are critically hurt in a vehicle rollover on Alaska's Parks Highway.

When Miranda Alger imagines her future, the recent college graduate pictures having a good job and earning enough money to allow her to live comfortably.

If Volkswagen AG picks Alabama for an assembly plant, voters statewide will likely get to decide if they want to seal the deal, possibly by tapping into a state savings account.

The Michigan Wolverines already have a former Pahokee star on their team in wide receiver Martavious Odoms.

DETROIT, July 2 MI-BlueCross-Responds DETROIT , /PRNewswire/ -- The Michigan Attorney General announced on he was filing a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan challenging a capital transaction ...

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has asked President Bush to declare a major disaster for parts of Michigan following severe storms in mid-June. Granholm asked Thursday for federal aid to partially cover the costs to the ...

Michigan will hire hundreds of workers to help more than 6,000 abused and neglected children who have languished in foster care find permanent homes after settling a class-action lawsuit filed by an advocacy ...

Now for some really good news: Last week, both houses of the Michigan Legislature reached a key agreement designed to protect the Great Lakes and Michigan's water.

The election for Michigan's 7th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has shaped up to become one of the most highly contested races in the state.

Two high school students from western Michigan who were videotaped attacking a classmate were charged with aggravated assault on Wednesday.

Few outside the state of Michigan are fully aware of its economic woes. Nationally, the U.S. economic slowdown, housing market decline, and rising gasoline prices have captured the headlines.

State senators say it's time to let all Michigan voters cast an absentee ballot if they want.

Jennifer Granholm is riding her bike to work several times a week, an example of ways she says Michigan consumers can save money.

A $3.25 million lawsuit settlement in no way makes up for the death of her son in a Michigan prison, Theresa Vaughn said, nor will it stop her campaign to improve prison conditions.

A reduction in state aid going to Michigan's public universities has helped spark skyrocketing tuition and threatens to undermine the state's efforts to dramatically boost its number of college graduates.

Via the Club for Growth , it shouldn't be any surprise that Michigan's economy is in trouble.

Organizers expect to have enough signatures to get a proposal on the Michigan ballot that would reduce the number of state lawmakers and appellate judges.

Do you think Michigan's lakes, streams and connected groundwater are a resource the public owns, or do you think they should be up for sale to the highest bidder? A bidder who could then market the water ...