Felony charges against a metro Detroit businesswoman who received a $20 million economic development grant have brought ...

Caplan has been charged with one count of conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, a 20-year felony; one count of ...

The city of Grand Rapids owns, rents, or leases about 727 vehicles, according to a 12-page document obtained through a ...

In 2024-25, nearly all of Flint Community Schools’ students in grades three through eight — 90% — were not proficient in ...

When Michigan approved subsidies for a data center in Grand Rapids in 2015, the data storage company Switch promised it would create 1,000 jobs. A 2022 state report said Switch had created 26 jobs or ...

Nearly all of Michigan’s public universities have seen student enrollment drop from 2010 numbers while three have a higher number. Enrollment at the state’s public 15 universities dropped by 16% from ...

Michigan House lawmakers want state taxpayers to fund about 800 pork projects. Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, released a list of “legislatively directed spending items” — also known as pork ...

Michigan state government gives large subsidies to select corporations in the hope of creating new jobs — $4.4 billion in 2023 alone — but in the case of a paper mill in Escanaba, big promises led to ...

The Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity announced in June it will award $9 million in taxpayer funds for selected museums and educational organizations. Several of the organizations listed ...

Michigan fell 13 spots in an annual ranking of economic competitiveness — the third worst fall for any state since reporting ...

The Michigan House’s 2027 budget proposal includes an earmark seeking $10 million to turn the Brodhead Naval Armory in ...