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

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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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. Until last month, Nick Panicola was working at two environmental nonprofits in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community-based violence intervention programs nationwide have long worked alongside law enforcement officers to deescalate conflict, prevent retaliatory shootings and, in some cases, arrive at crime ...

MACKINAC ISLAND – Michigan’s first chief growth officer announced the state is creating a welcome program offering perks to new residents and recent college graduates staying in the state.

The immigration status of thousands of Chinese international students housed in Michigan, and hundreds of thousands across the country, is under intense threat from federal officials which could lead ...