This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Sleeping Bear Dunes have been active systems for millennia, shifting with ...

PARKERSBURG, IOWA — At a sometimes raucous town hall meeting Friday morning, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst faced vocal opposition to her support for spending cuts to programs such as Medicaid and SNAP. Like ...

Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield and his wife were bound over for trial on embezzlement felonies and other criminal charges Friday, after an investigation by the Michigan Attorney General’s ...

MACKINAC ISLAND – Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature say they plan to support an initiative to hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the document. The proposal automatically appears ...

MACKINAC ISLAND – Michigan’s first chief growth officer announced the state is creating a welcome program offering perks to new residents and recent college graduates staying in the state.

Community-based violence intervention programs nationwide have long worked alongside law enforcement officers to deescalate conflict, prevent retaliatory shootings and, in some cases, arrive at crime ...

Michigan has been fortunate to have few recent attacks on voting rights from the state Legislature, but a House ...

MACKINAC ISLAND – Delivering her seventh address to attendees of the annual Mackinac Policy Conference, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recounted hard fought victories and future challenges, ...

The immigration status of thousands of Chinese international students housed in Michigan, and hundreds of thousands across the country, is under intense threat from federal officials which could lead ...

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. The first fatal shooting ...

During the annual women in leadership panel at the Mackinac Policy conference, leaders from the public and private sectors spoke out against growing federal efforts opposing diversity, equity and ...