Efforts to add electric school buses to districts across the state are moving forward.Clean energy officials met at Bay College in Escanaba yesterday to talk about funding and education opportunities for public schools.

It’s been a summer of groundbreaking ceremonies for BHSH Spectrum Health West Michigan. In July, it broke ground its 12-story, 240,000-square-foot Grand Rapids Outpatient Center. Thursday, BHSH broke ground on its new $37 million single-story, 94,000-square-foot Rehab and Nursing Center.

MARQUETTE, MI— Upper Peninsula leaders told Governor Gretchen Whitmer what they need from the state’s new Office of Rural Development at a roundtable at NMU Wednesday.Housing and childcare continue to be the biggest obstacles to drawing people to less populated regions. Whitmer noted there’s still money on the table after the latest budget was passed, and input from rural areas on how those dollars should be employed is critical.

The Big Ten conference has inked a billion dollar a year media deal.The deal involves NBC Sports, Fox Sports, CBS and NBC’s Peacock streaming service. The deal, which runs through the 2029-2030 season, is the most lucrative in college sports history.

A multibillion-dollar electric vehicle battery plant may be coming to St. Joseph County.Ultium Cells, a joint venture between LG Energy Solutions and General Motors, has submitted a county tax abatement application for the proposal — which representatives describe as a “potential large investment” — to be built near New Carlisle.

In an unusual bargaining move, the union representing some 6,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine are taking U-M to court, trying to force them to bargain on a particular issue in contract talks.

Home foreclosure filings across the nation this year have been, and continue to be, well ahead of last year. But in July, nationally foreclosure statistics dropped four percent from the previous month. And foreclosure completions declined by five percent from June to July.

The Michigan Legislature wrapped up work on budget bills in a session that lasted through Thursday night and into early Friday morning.

Activists in Detroit accuse the city of using tax policies that violate the Fair Housing Act.

The Michigan State Housing Development Authority has approved funding for four affordable housing projects. One addresses construction cost increases in Grand Rapids.