(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Emily Orta was a seemingly healthy 14-year-old soccer player in Adrian when her life changed in seconds. In the middle of a shooting drill, her ...

NORWAY — Norway Junior/Senior High School students are trying their voices at podcasting. Thanks to a $250 mini-grant from the Michigan Association of Retired School Personnel, mathematics and English teacher Cassandra Gustafson was able to launch a student-run podcasting project to promote ...

Months after a woman in state custody died from a treatable infection, Michigan lawmakers from both parties raised concerns over what they described as systemic failures at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, state Rep. Laurie ...

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report found that foreign investors own nearly 10% of Michigan’s farmland. Foreign entities or U.S. companies with a “significant foreign interest” hold 1.9 million acres of agricultural land in the state, accounting for 8.8% of Michigan’s total ...

ISHPEMING — Early on Wednesday morning, the city of Ishpeming released a statement that the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4573 building on Bank Street collapsed, prompting an evacuation of the downtown area. “The city of Ishpeming is responding to the collapse of the downtown VFW ...

MICHIGAN — Today, candidate for U.S. Senate Mallory McMorrow received the endorsement of Karen Weaver, who served as mayor of Flint during the Flint water crisis. “After speaking with Mallory McMorrow and observing how she connects with the community, I knew immediately she had my ...