WCMU Highlights

Health care leaders worry rural hospitals could be hit hard by Medicaid spending reductions in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." In the Midwest and Great Plains, Oklahoma and Kansas could face the highest risk of hospital closures and service reductions.

The Republican state House speaker and the Democratic Senate majority leader both say they'd support withholding lawmakers' pay if the Legislature misses a budget deadline.

State and local leaders want $800 million across the next five years for various affordable housing programs in Michigan. Proponents say they hope the funding, which totals $160 million a year, will lead to 10,000 new “attainable housing units” for Michigan residents.

Michigan’s State Board of Education is closer to filling the top education post after choosing Lisa Coons, Glenn Maleyko, and Judy Walton as finalists to be the next state superintendent.

El-Sayed will be in Clare Thursday evening. The progressive is one of three Democrats seeking to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township).

State transportation officials say 100 bridges across Michigan are currently without state funding to keep up with essential repairs and risk closing by 2035.

After surviving a suicide attempt, Tara started remembering sexual trauma she experienced in the military. Today, she says mental health services are the only thing that helped her stay alive, and that's why she advocates for the veteran support.

Cases in Benzie County, the Upper Peninsula and elsewhere demonstrate that small communities are not immune from big theft, and that the betrayal is deeply felt.

Wake boats are making big waves, and thus bigger clashes on Michigan’s inland lakes. Kalamazoo lawmaker proposes state limits.

Consenses Walks asked local artists to add their own interpretations of each others' art work via QR codes at different locations around Walloon Lake.