LANSING – The Michigan Department of State (MDOS) received 2,095 submissions to its “I Voted” sticker design contest by the May 1 deadline, four times the number of entries from the first contest in the 2024 presidential election year. “Thank you to the more than 2,000 Michigan ...
LANSING, MICH. - As communities across the state begin cleaning up after recent flooding events, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) urge residents to take precautions against mosquitoes and ticks ...
LANSING — May 2026 has officially been declared Pure Michigan Month by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. "We recognize the iconic Pure Michigan brand as the state’s calling card, inspiring immense local pride and driving tourism growth for 20 years,” Whitmer said. "The Pure Michigan brand has ...
A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigration when signing contracts with the U.S. Forest Service is threatening millions of dollars in wildfire grant funding and fire reduction projects on federal lands. Some liberal ...
The Trump administration’s recently announced plans to radically restructure the U.S. Forest Service have raised concerns among advocates that forest land across Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest could suffer. The plan, announced late last month, will relocate the agency’s head office from ...
When the 13 colonies in the east began their push toward independence from Britain, Michigan was more than a half-century away from becoming a state and the people of the Upper Peninsula still primarily indigenous. To tell their history in the region, Northern Michigan University in 2019 ...