Michigan has been fortunate to have few recent attacks on voting rights from the state Legislature, but a House ...

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. The first fatal shooting ...

For Elsa Caín-Yuqilema of Ecuador, language expresses one’s culture and when a language is lost, its culture will also vanish ...

Gathering in Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel on Wednesday, State Sens. Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton) and Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) joined Skillman Foundation President and CEO Angelique Power to discuss ...

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Sexual assault survivors gained support from the Michigan Senate on Tuesday with the passage of bills to allow more time in filing civil lawsuits against their assailants, but it remains unclear if ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit filed by nearly a dozen Michigan Republican lawmakers seeking to roll back voting rights measures passed by voters in 2018 and 2022. The suit, ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Sleeping Bear Dunes have been active systems for millennia, shifting with ...

MACKINAC ISLAND – Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature say they plan to support an initiative to hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the document. The proposal automatically appears ...

PARKERSBURG, IOWA — At a sometimes raucous town hall meeting Friday morning, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst faced vocal opposition to her support for spending cuts to programs such as Medicaid and SNAP. Like ...

Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield and his wife were bound over for trial on embezzlement felonies and other criminal charges Friday, after an investigation by the Michigan Attorney General’s ...

During the annual women in leadership panel at the Mackinac Policy conference, leaders from the public and private sectors spoke out against growing federal efforts opposing diversity, equity and ...