DNR wants Michiganians to report bear dens to help orphaned cubs

Michigan will seek $20 million to $25 million from a $2.3 billion federal fund for rail corridor improvements. Peter Anastor, the director of the state Transportation Department’s Office of Rail, said his department will apply for a grant to help cover costs for repair work on four rail bridges that serve Amtrak passenger trains.

Michigan could soon begin to see campaign stops from would-be presidential candidates a lot earlier and more campaign spending as the spotlight on the battleground state intensifies ahead of the 2024 election. The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to approve a reshuffled calendar for next year that moves Michigan into...

Michiganians who want to comment on the National Guard's requested expansion of Camp Grayling in the northern Lower Peninsula have until Wednesday to do so. The comment period for the proposal — which would allow the National Guard to more than double its footprint in Grayling by leasing an additional 162,000 acres of state-owned property — was originally supposed to close July 8, 2022 but was extended after public outcry over the proposal.

Robert Vercruysse, a longtime Metro Detroit labor lawyer and noted negotiator, died Wednesday, Feb. 1. He was 78. "He was a fierce advocate for his clients. He had a wicked cross-examination," said Anne-Marie Welch, Mr. Vercruysse's youngest daughter who has practiced law with her father for the past seven years at the Clark Hill law firm. "He was trusted with the most challenging litigation and negotiations because he was just so good."

Approximately 102 boxes of newly retired Michigan U.S. Rep. Fred Upton’s papers from his 36-year tenure in Congress oddly turned up last month on a loading dock at Ohio State University instead of at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where they were meant to go. Congressional sources...

Democrats here in the Great Lakes State seem to have short memories. Now that they have majorities in both chambers of the Legislature for the first time in 40 years, along with the governorship, they intend to pay off their campaign donors by repealing right to work. Let’s recall the situation Michigan was in just over a decade ago, before Michigan banned forced union dues within its borders.

Detroit – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive Friday expanding the state’s efforts to increase the number of contracts it holds with Michigan businesses that are minority, women and veteran-owned or located in small towns and inner cities. The directive follows an initiative Whitmer first created in...

At least 30 anti-abortion activists gathered Saturday afternoon at various pharmacies in Michigan to protest the Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to allow certified pharmacies to dispense the abortion pill when prescribed by a certified prescriber. South Lyon resident Monica Miller helped organize a protest of 15 people outside...

East Palestine, Ohio — A freight train derailment in Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line left a mangled and charred mass of boxcars and flames Saturday as authorities launched a federal investigation and monitored air quality from the various hazardous chemicals in the train. About 50 cars derailed in...

Temperatures around southeast Michigan are expected to warm up and push bitter cold out over the next couple of days, according to the National Weather Service. A wind chill advisory the agency issued early Friday morning for much of the region expired at 9 a.m. A wind chill advisory means extremely cold weather is expected and the term wind chill refers to what the air temperature feels like on human skin.

Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Democratic leaders of the Legislature are preparing a sweeping tax relief proposal they say will reduce tax bills by more than $1 billion and include rebate checks that could be issued directly to residents. The Friday agreement focuses on a plan...

Lansing — With Democrats now in control in the state Legislature, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is bringing back two university board appointments that were blocked by Republican lawmakers last year. Whitmer announced Thursday she has again selected former state Rep. Jon Hoadley, a Democrat from Kalamazoo, to serve on...

Detroit — The CEO of a government contracting company embezzled from the firm and spent more than $10 million on pain pills, according to federal criminal cases that describe an outsized series of drug deals amid the nation's opioid crisis. The misappropriation and drug binge are detailed in federal...

A Commerce Township man has been charged in connection with applying for nearly $1 million worth of pandemic loans for fake businesses, including one sharing a name associated with “The Karate Kid,” federal officials said Friday. Ryan Carruthers, 42 is charged with wire fraud in a criminal complaint...