Rick Pluta

Abortion rights advocates were at the state Capitol Thursday to ask lawmakers not to vote on a controversial abortion measure.

Michigan’s controversial wolf hunting season is underway in the Upper Peninsula.

Republicans in Lansing are split over whether people who bankroll so-called “issue ads” should be allowed to remain anonymous.

The Michigan Supreme Court will decide whether more than 300 inmates sentenced to life without parole for murders committed while they were juveniles are entitled to parole hearings.

A state task force says a new approach is needed to address human trafficking in Michigan – and the most important part is not treating victims as criminals.

The US Supreme Court’s has rejected the appeal of a Michigan prison inmate.

A state lawmaker hopes to have a bill on Governor Rick Snyder’s desk before the end of the year to allow medical marijuana distribution centers.

Elected county prosecutors, assistant prosecutors and jail guards could carry concealed guns in schools and other pistol-free zones under bills before the state Legislature.

Lawsuits filed against the state would go to a new division of the Michigan Court of Appeals under a bill approved Wednesday by the state Senate.

A two-day conference in Lansing is looking at ways to fight abuse and trafficking in prescription narcotics.

Governor Rick Snyder says schools and students should have more options when it comes to meeting the Algebra Two graduation requirement.

Governor Rick Snyder wants the Legislature to focus on overhauling Michigan’s auto no-fault law as it approaches the final weeks of the 2013 session.

State environmental regulators have rolled out proposed new rules to cover hydraulic “fracking” for natural gas.

Governor Rick Snyder says his controversial NERD Fund will be shut down this week.

A financial review board has moved the city of Highland Park closer to a takeover or some other form of state intervention.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday to Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in public university admissions.

State Treasurer Andy Dillon will resign his position.

A challenge to a local zoning ordinance that restricts medical marijuana was argued today Thursday before the state Supreme Court.

Michigan’s new right-to-work law has not put a big dent in membership of the state’s biggest teachers’ union.

Abortion opponents have turned in more than 315,000 petition signatures calling on the Legislature to place new restrictions on health coverage.

The state won’t move about a thousand inmates to a privately run prison in northern Michigan.

On the second day of the federal government shutdown, half a dozen national nature preserves in Michigan closed.

Michigan’s budget chief says the state can ride out a week or two of the federal shutdown without suffering big consequences.

Michigan is asking same-sex couples married in states that allow it to file separate tax returns. That’s despite the fact that the federal government recognizes their relationships.

Jobseekers who fail or refuse to take an employer drug test could face losing their unemployment benefits, under legislation that cleared the state House Thursday.

The first campaign ad in the race for Michigan governor will start airing Wednesday.

Republican politicians are back in Lansing and Washington this week following a weekend conference on Mackinac Island.

About 15 hundred Republicans are meeting on Mackinac Island this weekend to get ready for the 2014 and 2016 elections.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is calling for laws to require inspections and background checks for compounding pharmacies like the one that produced the drug that caused a nationwide meningitis outbreak.