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Andrew Roth/WKAR-MSUU.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Palisades nuclear power plant will help power data centers while bringing down utility rates when it reopens later this year. -
Michigan Executive Office of the GovernorGovernor Gretchen started a week-long European trade trip in Paris to pitch Michigan’s aerospace and defense industries as an unsettled continent faces a pullback in the U.S. commitment to the NATO alliances and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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One of the candidates is the current interim chief. One is suing her former employer for discrimination. One was sued for discrimination. One is a lawyer. -
Michigan’s attorney general is suggesting tweaks to the proposed utility contracts for a planned Google data center in southeast Michigan. -
The Republican state House leader won’t guarantee that Michigan will have a new balanced budget in place by the rapidly approaching July 1 deadline. -
Trustee Sandy Pierce said the tuition increase would partially offset potential cuts in the state budget. -
Lansing's Moores Park Pool opened in 1922. It's been closed for more than half a decade because of extensive renovations needed to the structure. -
Trustees Mike Balow and Rema Vassar were censured during Friday’s board meeting for declining to agree to the new code of conduct that limits their ability to dissent from majority decisions. -
Some Michigan House Democrats are adding onto a plan they’re calling a "Ratepayer Bill of Rights." -
The opening of the new Gordie Howe international bridge connecting Michigan and Canada is delayed. Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she doesn't expect it will last long. -
Civil rights advocates say an indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors this week conflates constitutionally protected free speech with criminal activity. -
Scientists and documentarians recently piloted a remote camera down to the depths of Lake Superior to study the wildlife and health of the remote ecosystem.
