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Some Michigan student loan borrowers got good news from Biden this week: their student loans are being forgiven as part of a new income-based loan repayment program.
An endangered Great Lakes shorebird that has survived earlier threats to its habitat now faces new challenges. Report a banded plover and learn more at the Great Lakes Piping Plover website.
New data confirms law enforcement suspicions about a surge in meth and cocaine. Michigan has spent millions to treat opioids, but treatments don’t work the same for meth.
The state hopes a new $125 million fund will make Michigan more attractive for advanced manufacturing and let it lure more federally backed high-tech factories.
For the first time in years, the number of recent high school graduates in Michigan has increased. Statewide, 38.2% of last year’s graduates enrolled in four-year colleges, while more than half are in some higher education.
Two longtime Republican fundraisers face a combined two felonies and three misdemeanors for their alleged roles in a “dark money scheme” that shielded the names of donors to a campaign seeking to diminish Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
