Economic status, zip code or race should not determine your ability to breathe clean air.

Heralded as bipartisan legislation that ensures state officials are held accountable for financial conflicts, the bills keep most officials’ sources of income a secret from the public, unlike in many states. Critics denounce the reform effort as “a farce” that maintains the status quo.

Michigan’s population grows past 10 million, but it will still lose a representative in Congress. Four of the six other states losing a seat are in the Great Lakes.

Michigan schools must offer the annual standardized test, but, because of the pandemic, not all students have to take it. That could make the results less useful than normal.

Conservatives are campaigning to remove a high-ranking Michigan Republican Party official because he blamed former President Donald Trump — not fraud — for last year’s election loss.

As of Friday, April 23, 54 children were hospitalized in Michigan with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.

Republicans in Michigan are joining conservative colleagues across the country in a race to pre-emptively ban COVID-19 “vaccine passports,” citing concerns over privacy and personal liberty amid a mass inoculation effort.

More people are getting vaccines and hospitalizations and deaths are dropping, but scientists are keeping a close eye on new coronavirus variants detected in Michigan.

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is cleared for use after a temporary pause following rare cases of blood clot issues in women. But some experts fear the public may be hesitant to take it.

A dinner among drivers and pre-K staffers forced quarantines just as students were set to return to school. It’s the latest example of the frustrating, sometimes futile efforts to keep Michigan schools open.