In a bipartisan effort, eight Democrats and 12 Republicans in the Michigan Senate passed a bill Feb. 13 to head off automatic ...

Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide. They include the gaps in the nation's ...

If approved as recommended, the budget would bring the authorized size of the state workforce to its highest point since ...

Whitmer wants to add the wholesale tax, applied to smoking products like cigarettes, to marijuana. She says that using pot ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants the Michigan Legislature to preserve the state’s current tipped wage system at least until July 1 ...

A former state senator started using the phrase in 2014, when he served with Gretchen Whitmer in the Michigan Senate.

Democratic Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson is seemingly distancing herself from Whitmer's ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed state budget for the next fiscal year, rolled out Wednesday, includes a record investment in education.

It continues initiatives introduced earlier under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, such as the sweetened Earned Income Tax Credit, reduced taxes on retirement income, pre-kindergarten for 4-year-olds ...

(The Center Square) – On Wednesday, a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee will hear Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s fiscal year 2025-2026 budget recommendations. Over the past ...

(WILX) - 15,000 new housing units are needed in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties. Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s spending plan for 2026 could help with that need. The spending plan will be ...

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who has called for new, sustainable funding to fix roads and bridges, will not outline a plan as part of her budget proposal this week but will follow with one ...