The Michigan House of Representatives adjourned early Wednesday afternoon after conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah.

Bills adopted Wednesday by a state Senate committee would outlaw political petition circulators being paid by the signature.

WCMU's cohort of four newsroom interns covered a range of stories across central and northern Michigan in the summer of 2025.

Working on his master’s in biology, Aaron Vlasak is looking for mussels and mollusks in a really big area, with lots of mud, updating information for the first time in forty years.

Moolenaar says hackers with connections to the Chinese government pretended to be him by sending emails to officials working on trade negotiations with China.

Northwest Michigan is giving books to preschoolers in response to decreasing literacy rates. Declining donations and state funding uncertainty cast a shadow on the program. Other states fully fund the efforts.

Just two states in the nation have been unable to pass some form of a budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year – and now, they’re staring down significant consequences if their respective legislative bodies fail to act soon.

Federal funds have been dwindling, and advocates across Michigan say they need help from the state — but legislators are having trouble agreeing on a state budget.

Elizabeth Hertel, the leader of the state Department of Health and Human Services, appeared before the Michigan House Oversight Committee Tuesday for a tense hearing.

An appeals court panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether the state House Republican majority can sit on bills adopted by the Legislature in the last session instead of sending them to the governor.