As voters consider who should fill Michigan’s open US Senate seat, there are several big policy issues for candidates to address: What is the future of health care? What to do about high costs of living and affordable housing shortages? Should the rules around money in politics be changed? In […]

Republican U.S. Rep. John James picked state Rep. Jay DeBoyer, R-Clay Twp., as his running mate for Michigan’s 2026 governors race. If the pick is approved at the Aug. 22 Republican Nominating Convention, it will be the first time Republicans don’t have a woman candidate on their ticket in 48 […]

MISSAUKEE COUNTY, MICH. Autopsies have been completed on all six deceased individuals involved in the Aug. 14 Missaukee County shootings.  Each is being identified by name, and through the investigation it has been determined that the suspect was known by all involved. • The three deceased individuals found at the South LaChance Road address have been identified as 45-year-old Shane McGowan, 40-year-old Amanda Everitt, and 16-year-old Eric Thomas. The 13-year-old girl […]

The group seeking to amend the Michigan Constitution so that non-citizens are blocked and purged from the voter list and require all voters to show identification when voting has fallen short of the needed number valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot, according to Bureau of Elections staff. The […]

Trooper Tom Kinnunen has lived most of his life in the Upper Peninsula, worlds away from where he was born in Korea.  “My parents adopted me when I was one,” said Trooper Kinnunen. “The U.P. is my home. I have a wonderful life and career here, but I don’t know […]

GRAND RAPIDS — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson has selected Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks of Grand Rapids as her running mate and potential lieutenant governor, she announced Wednesday.  To enact her agenda, “I need a governing partner who has a track record for getting things done,” Benson said in […]

Michigan Republicans are highlighting Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson’s connections to a civil-rights nonprofit facing criminal charges under President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.  The Southern Poverty Law Center and one of its former executives are accused of defrauding donors by giving payments to members of extremist groups it had recruited as […]

Corrections officers at three Upper Peninsula prisons are planning informational pickets this week to draw attention to staffing shortages they said have created unsafe working conditions across the state. The pickets come nearly a month after the corrections officers’ union unsuccessfully made a formal request to the Democratic administration of […]

LANSING, Mich. — Today, Governor Whitmer issued the following statement on the planned demonstration in Dearborn Tuesday evening.   “Dearborn is home to one of the most vibrant communities in America. Its residents are our friends and our neighbors.   “Today, a group of agitators is traveling to Dearborn for the sole purpose of […]