City Council made a series of key votes Tuesday to secure tax incentives for the $1.5 billion District Detroit development project.

Soaring state revenues will likely force the Whitmer administration to reduce Michigan’s personal income tax rate. But that cut is only for one year, the Democrat Attorney General contends. Republicans excoriated that legal interpretation.

Michigan residents can buy or renew a one-year fishing license in Michigan beginning Friday, March 31. Hunting and fishing activity has mostly declined in recent years.

The state is offering the automaker over $1 billion in funding as Ford plans a $3.5 billion investment in an electric vehicle battery factory about 20 miles east of Battle Creek.

If based solely by population, Michigan had the 10th worst COVID death rate of any state in the nation. But when adjusted for the state’s older and less healthy population, the state’s handling of the pandemic fares much better.

Grad student workers will stop teaching undergraduate students Wednesday morning, just weeks before classes end. The union is seeking a big pay increase. U-M vows legal action, saying a strike would violate the current contract and state law.

More than half of Michigan’s 83 counties passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries or proclaiming their right to ignore laws that don’t square with their constitutional principles.

Dozens of school districts across Michigan are spending COVID relief funds to rehab aging school buildings, some of which lack air conditioning.

The first 10 calls to 911 show chaos, fear and confusion at MSU and pose new questions about why police waited more than 12 minutes to alert students of an active shooter on campus.

District Detroit is seeking $800 million worth of public subsidies. Billionaires like Ilitch Holdings and Stephan Ross shouldn’t be receiving corporate welfare tax abatements from one of the most impoverished U.S. cities.