LANSING — Michigan Democrats took their first steps in passing a sweeping 11-bill gun safety package Thursday as red flag laws and requirements for safe storage and universal background checks all cleared the Senate along party lines. Two school mass shootings in 15 months, including last ...

DETROIT (AP) — A 55-year-old man has been charged with shooting two Michigan State Police troopers inside a Detroit home. Andre Hardaway of Detroit was arraigned Wednesday on assault with intent to murder and gun charges, the Wayne County prosecutor’s office said. Members of a state ...

By Journal Staff LANSING — If you spent any time on the water last year, chances are you saw Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries management units busily completing more than 270 fisheries surveys across the state. Specifically, crews completed 172 surveys of Michigan’s ...

DETROIT (AP) — Wayne State University in Detroit will provide free tuition to incoming in-state students with family incomes of $70,000 or less and assets of $50,000 or less. The Wayne State Guarantee was announced Monday. It covers the full cost of tuition and standard fees with a ...

LANSING — The Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division is working to help local communities reduce risks from natural hazards and disasters. The MSP/EMHSD is seeking proposals from communities to implement hazard mitigation projects to be funded through ...

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student threatened students, staff members and professors at the university, telling some of them via email before he traveled to the U.S. last week that he planned to kill their children, according to court documents. Arvin Raj Mathur, 32, ...