It’s mice, shrews and voles for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. But you'll never guess how GVSU researchers learned it. Double spoiler: They looked at poop.

$18 million for condos, $9 million for a health startup and more: Champions say the money helps those in need; foes say it’s old-fashioned pork and government picking winners and losers.

The new law repeals a 2018 Republican-backed law that prohibited the state from setting stronger environmental standards than the federal government.

A vertical farming effort, Planted Detroit, is set to close, demonstrating the obstacles to growing produce indoors. Among the barriers: The high cost of electricity and synthetic soil inflate the price of greens, making them too expensive for many customers.

Michigan has invested $335 million in school security since the 2021 Oxford High School shootings. Concern over shootings has yielded a gold-rush of security vendors offering schools everything from robotic dogs to bulletproof whiteboards.

The Oxford High School shooter who killed four students and injured seven others in 2021 when he was 15, tortured birds, fantasized about children suffering and researched Michigan’s prison sentences before carrying out the shooting, according to testimony Thursday.

Traverse City is the cherry capital of the U.S., helping Michigan produce 70 percent of the nation’s tart cherries. This year’s harvest was challenging because of bad weather.

Meshawn Maddock is the second defendant to be arraigned in a case for allegedly trying to reverse Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Michigan.

Attorney Stefanie Lambert says she has been indicted in plot to illegally examine vote machines in an effort to prove 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump. Others under investigation include Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf.