Districts across the state are relaxing mask requirements, routine COVID testing, social distancing rules, and 10-day quarantines this back-to-school season.

Saying she was ‘appalled’ by the possible closure of an Ottawa County library, romance novelist Nora Roberts steps in with a $50,000 donation and a willingness to send more. Donations now exceed next year’s budget shortfall for the library.

It’ll be Tudor Dixon and Shane Hernandez at the top of the Michigan Republican Party ticket this fall after the gubernatorial nominee got her preferred running mate in a raucous and chaotic GOP convention.

Michigan students leave college with more debt than the U.S. average. Experts have suggestions for ways to lessen the load.

Michigan Bureau of Elections staff on Thursday recommended that Reproductive Freedom for All, a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, make the November ballot. However, staff also raised questions about what it could mean for related regulations, if approved.

Lena Epstein, a Republican running for the University of Michigan Board of Regents, was allegedly arrested in front of her daughter last fall during a dispute with her boyfriend. The prosecutor did not charge her.

The funding, approved this week, will cover just a portion of what’s needed to make the properties build ready. But it better prepares the state to compete for large-scale development deals that employ thousands.