2023

State and national lawmakers on Friday met with local advocates to celebrate environmental budget wins and clean up trails alongside the Huron River in Southeast Michigan.

Funding has been announced for 12 projects throughout the state aimed at helping Michiganders connect with their communities.

Fifty years after the Endangered Species Act law took effect, environmental advocates and scientists say it’s as essential as ever. Habitat loss, pollution, climate change and disease are putting an estimated 1 million species worldwide at risk. Yet the law has become so controversial that Congress hasn’t updated it since 1992 — and some worry it…

More than $500,000 in state grants awarded this week are set to establish what will become an evolving network of shore-side charging facilities for electric boats operating on the Great Lakes.

BY ANNA LIZ NICHOLS, MICHIGAN ADVANCE A lawsuit by Macomb County Republicans to decertify the 2020 election, in which President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in Michigan, was dismissed Wednesday. Judge Paul L. Maloney of the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Macomb County…

A Michigan attorney involved in multiple efforts around the country to overturn the 2020 election in support of former President Donald Trump has been charged in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines in Michigan.

After passing long-sought gun safety reforms earlier this year, Democrats in the Michigan Legislature are still looking for ways to curb gun violence—including new laws to keep guns out of the hands of violent domestic abusers, and to lower suicide rates.

Poor conditions forced a 59-year-old Michigan man to quit an attempt to swim across Lake Michigan after just hours in the water.