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More teens are turning to pot and see it as less of a risk at the same time alcohol use among the same age group has dipped to historic lows, according to an annual national survey of drug use released Wednesday.
Keith Sliter admits a state takeover is not his ideal choice to fix what ails this southwest Michigan city's finances, then acknowledges it may be the best available option.
Out-of-towners would be wise to drive carefully when passing through Fraser, a suburb about 15 miles northeast of Detroit.
Classmates, coaches and former opponents were among the mourners who filled a southwest Michigan church Tuesday to celebrate the short life of a teen athlete who friends and family say will have a long-lasting impact.
In better days, newly elected governors were welcomed into office with star-studded galas, serenades by rock bands, even an NFL stadium transformed into a winter wonderland. But with many now facing multibillion-dollar deficits and high unemployment, states' top bosses are toning it down. Way down.
A group of friends and family is obscenely rich after winning a nearly $129 million jackpot with a lottery ticket bought at a Detroit-area porn shop. And some of the money will be devoted to sacred purposes.
Liquor sales will soon be allowed on Sunday mornings in Michigan because of a compromise between state lawmakers and Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Michigan's auto industry could get a boost — including the possibility of more than 2,000 additional jobs at the Detroit area's biggest carmakers — from projects assisted with state tax incentives announced Tuesday.
It's easy to figure out which species is the dominant one at a wildlife rehabilitation center set up in the aftermath of the summer oil spill in southern Michigan.
Michigan lawmakers wrapped up the final key pieces of the next state budget on Wednesday, without tax increases and with spending cuts in many programs other than aid to public schools.
Enbridge Inc. says it expects to meet a Sept. 27 deadline set by federal regulators for removing oil that spilled into southern Michigan waterways after a pipeline leak.
Michigan's legislative leaders and Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration agreed in concept Tuesday on ways to balance the state budget, a significant step toward getting a final plan in place by an Oct. 1 deadline.
Enbridge Energy Partners, the company whose pipeline caused a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River five weeks ago, said Wednesday its plan to reinforce its oil pipelines under Lake Michigan is part of a routine maintenance program.
Michigan's state lawmakers ended a more than two-week summer break Wednesday and returned to the state Capitol, still unsure how they're going to solve the state's budget problems.
Whirlpool Corp. received a state tax incentive Tuesday for consolidation of its headquarters in southwestern Michigan, a move that will bring much-needed investment to Benton Harbor.
Michigan opponents of the federal health care overhaul said Tuesday they will keep fighting the plan, even though their grass-roots bid to allow voters to weigh in on the issue has failed.
Michigan's budget problems will become significantly worse and state programs will be put at risk if Congress doesn't revive a federal spending bill, Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Friday.
In the aftermath of high-profile government scandals in Detroit, Michigan voters will get the chance in November to decide if public officials convicted of committing certain crimes should be banned from office.
Five members of the state's largest teachers union have filed a lawsuit challenging part of Michigan's new law related to the public school employee retirement system.
A proposal to build a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, passed a key hurdle Wednesday in the Michigan House.
Democrats who run the Michigan House moved Tuesday toward approving a budget bill that would maintain current levels of state aid for public universities in the next fiscal year.
Local governments are warning that they will be forced to make deeper cuts to law enforcement agencies, fire departments and other services if Michigan lawmakers reduce their tax-sharing payments in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
Michigan might put more bang into its Fourth of July holiday if bills approved Wednesday by the state House eventually become law.
A key figure in the government's efforts to help the auto and manufacturing industries said Monday that General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC are moving in the right direction but remain works in progress.
Michigan lawmakers said Thursday that a potential money-saving plan aimed at coaxing thousands of public school employees into retirement this summer hasn't yet failed.
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