The latest Lunch Break event featured reporters Paula Gardner and Kelly House and digital marketing associate Asha Lewis taking reader questions about their cross-state adventure in a Chevy Bolt

Michigan will help cover student loan payments for about 8,460 educators in the first round of a $250 million program. Many districts didn’t apply on behalf of their teachers, so only $17 million went out last month.

Michigan's Nov. 5 election will decide races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state House and more. Here's what you need to know.

Michigan Supreme Court sides with state regulators who sought to tamp down on manure pollution from big livestock operations. Farm interests said the rules are too onerous.

Minimum wage workers and tipped employees face an immediate pay boost in February after a court ruling on Wednesday. Businesses say the effects could be dire; unclear is whether the Legislature will step in.

Hillary Scholten is the first Democrat to represent the Grand Rapids region in Congress in four decades. Republicans Michael Markey and Paul Hudson want the seat back but are mired in a bitter fight.

Bankruptcy documents lay out Rite Aid’s shift to Michigan stores in its efforts to downsize.

Michigan clerks have extra time to process absentee ballots this year. Officials hope it will allow them to report results faster on election night.

Michigan has added lesser celandine, which can push out native plants, to its invasive-species watch list, though the plant remains legal to buy and sell.

A Michigan Supreme Court ruling will likely raise the minimum wage to over $12 an hour in February and higher in future years, giving a raise to tens of thousands of workers. Business leaders called it ‘catastrophic.’