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This Detroit community is helping its neighbors recover with abortion after care event
| August 30, 2025
On Sept. 13, community members will gather in Detroit to help assemble hundreds of care bags to give to patients recovering from having an abortion.Scholten leads Michigan Dems calling on Trump administration to restore solar energy funding
| August 29, 2025
Following the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to cancel funding for the federal Solar For All program, US Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Grand Rapids) and her fellow Democratic House representatives are calling on EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to reinstate more than $7 billion in terminated grants.Whitmer calls special election for open Michigan Senate seat after months of bipartisan pressure
| August 29, 2025
Nearly eight months after US Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Bay City) left her seat in the Michigan Senate to serve in Congress, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election to fill the vacant seat.13 gluten-free restaurants & bakeries in Michigan that locals love
| August 29, 2025
From coast to coast in Michigan, here are 13 gluten-free restaurants loved by locals. Mac and cheese or brownie cake, anyone?What to do in Michigan this Labor Day weekend
| August 28, 2025
This weekend's highlights include the Michigan State Fair, a festival celebrating the macabre in the capital region, and, of course, the annual Mackinac Bridge Labor Day Walk.Michigan asking residents to list investment priorities for Belle Isle state park in Detroit River
| August 28, 2025
More than a decade after the state of Michigan took over management of Belle Isle, residents are being asked to help shape the island’s next chapter.Your 2025 guide to leaf-peeping in Michigan: When and where to see fall colors
| August 28, 2025
If you’re ready for a break from the heat and wildfire smoke, we hear you. We’re gearing up for fall with this ultimate leaf-peeping in Michigan guide.Michigan House Republican budget makes massive cuts to several state departments
| August 28, 2025
The budget bill moved by the Republican-led Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday would make massive cuts to state departments that oversee health and human services, labor and economic growth, environmental regulation and statewide law enforcement.WATCH: Taxed, but not represented—270,000 Michiganders are done waiting to be heard
| August 27, 2025
Michiganders are suing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over a vacant state Senate seat.WATCH: Taylor Swift vs. Michigan Republicans: Who’s better at deadlines?
| August 27, 2025
Taylor Swift meets her deadlines. Michigan Republicans do not.WATCH: Why can’t Michigan pass a school phone ban?
| August 27, 2025
Michigan lawmakers agree that cell phones are a real problem in schools. They even have support from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But many Michigan students are still heading back to class this year—phone in hand.WATCH: Big corporations are trying to buy a new Michigan governor
| August 27, 2025
Michigan’s next governor isn’t for sale… right? Then why are Amazon, Walmart, and Big Tobacco quietly pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race?
MICHIGAN LIFE
HISTORY
5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history
| August 27, 2025
Hollywood studios and independent producers have long depicted the collective efforts of working people to improve their lives and gain a voice in their workplaces and the larger society.St. Clair: The storybook Michigan town with a surprising world record
| August 26, 2025
St. Clair, Michigan, not only exudes charm and offers plenty of adventures, but it also boasts an impressive world record.The fascinating histories behind 6 Michigan roads
| August 18, 2025
Turns out, the roads we drive every day aren’t just pavement and paint—they’re pieces of Michigan’s ever-evolving history. Buckle up as we take you on a trip down six Michigan roads with names that tell the story of the state’s past.That one time in Michigan: When America’s only floating post office set sail
| August 5, 2025
Learn more about the J.W. Westcott II, aka America's only floating post office, which keeps Great Lakes freighters stocked with everything from mechanical parts to hamburgers.A historian’s guide to living history in and around Detroit
| July 29, 2025
You’ve studied Michigan history, but why not live it? Check out one historian’s guide to the best ways to bring history to life in Metro Detroit.That one time in Michigan: When we had our deadliest tornado
| July 14, 2025
June marked the 72nd anniversary of the deadliest tornado in Michigan’s history. Learn about the Flint-Beecher tornado, its impact, and its lasting legacy.75 years after the then-worst crash in US history, search ends for a plane in Lake Michigan
| June 26, 2025
A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950.A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it
| June 18, 2025
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a […]
