Michigan News

A Republican-led Senate subcommittee approved a bill Thursday with the spending reductions for the budget year that begins Oct.

The Detroit News' review of budget documents indicates the district faces a $98 million deficit for the budget year ending June 30, instead of the $17 million surplus Bobb had projected.

About 20 law enforcement officials searched the South Kent Landfill on Monday for remains of Jozlynn Martinez.

One of the biggest pieces of good news to come out of the Michigan economy in five years surfaced Tuesday, when the state announced that the number of people with jobs in the state grew by 11,000 between December and January.

Michigan-based Adaptive Materials Inc. says it has received a $2.9 million Pentagon contract to develop a 300-watt fuel cell system.

School districts will lay off more teachers, reduce bus service and trim support for sports next academic year unless Michigan shores up its education funding system, an advocacy group said Monday.

A House committee Tuesday raised the ante on funding the nationally acclaimed Pure Michigan tourism promotion, voting to pump another $20 million into the campaign - $11.5 million more than the Senate approved last week.

Grand Rapids fire Battalion Chief Jerry Salatka tells WOOD-TV the department gained as much information as it could about the baby and the woman.

Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year.

The Humane Society of Kent County will get ownership of at least 11 dogs that have been living there in western Michigan.

Kevin Ryan's second report released Tuesday reports "significant accomplishments" but says overall performance slipped during the six months.

Former "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien has randomly picked a Michigan woman to follow on Twitter , and she says it has changed her life, WDIV-TV in Detroit reported.

Authorities say a man who fatally shot one police officer and wounded another has been killed during a shootout in south-central Michigan.

Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on ...

The Economic Club of Grand Rapids says Bush will give the keynote address at its annual meeting June 2. Clinton gave the address in 2007.

Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day, one in New Hampshire and one in Michigan.

Passionate about preserving U.S. Naval history, Lowell Wallace, Bill Marquardt and Bob Coffin loved watching the Douglas SBD Dauntless and the F6F-3 Hellcat fighter planes being pulled from Lake Michigan last year.

Jobs are hard to come by in Benton Harbor, a recession-ravaged town of 10,800 on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

A new survey says 86 percent of Michigan's public school districts expect to have layoffs in the coming year.

Bill Martin spent his last day as Michigan's athletic director watching the Wolverines lose 64-48 to Michigan State in basketball.