FLINT, Mich. — General Motors says it will spend more than $900 million to update four factories, with the bulk going to an engine plant in Flint, Michigan, to build the next-generation V8 for big pickup trucks and SUVs. Factories in Rochester, New York; Defiance, Ohio; and Bay City, ...

By Journal Staff ALPENA — The public-comment period for the draft environmental assessment for the modification and addition of airspace at the Alpena Special Use Airspace Complex, prepared by the Michigan Air National Guard and the National Guard Bureau, has closed. The draft EA was ...

By Journal Staff LANSING — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new tool, the Michigan Substance Use Vulnerability Index, to help stakeholders target efforts to address substance use issues specifically facing their communities. Previously, overdose ...

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded the woman’s daughter wear a mask while shopping were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole. Larry Teague, wife Sharmel ...

PONTIAC (AP) — A Michigan mother and her two children were found frozen to death over the weekend after the mom experienced a “mental health crisis,” a county sheriff said Monday. Monica Cannady, 35, “believed someone was trying to kill her and that everybody was in on it” ...

WELLSTON, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan was arrested after holding two women hostage, state police said Sunday. Troopers were called to the man’s home, a shed in Wellston about 85 miles north of Grand Rapids, shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday. One of the women told police she and a friend ...