By Journal Staff LANSING — A state bill to provide legal protections for LGBTQ+ people in Michigan got one step closer to becoming law on Wednesday. State House lawmakers voted 64-45 in favor of SB 4, which extends the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation, gender ...

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — A conservative economic-policy group will get a $22,500 reward for blowing the whistle on a Michigan teachers union and its insurance arm, which got $12.5 million in government-backed loans during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mackinac Center for ...

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday defended charges against the parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan school in 2021, telling an appeals court that extreme drawings and the boy’s fascination with guns should have been a wake-up call on the day of the shootings. A ...

ANN ARBOR (AP) — Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to run the U.S. Census Bureau and its leader during the contentious debate over how to compensate for undercounts of minority groups in the 1990 census, has died. She was 96. Bryant’s family said in an email that she died of ...

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Making the transition to energy efficiency will require a lot of steps, but it is possible, state Rep. Jenn Hill, D-Marquette, said during a Friday presentation of the Northern Climate Network at Northern Michigan University. “The ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan also dismissed Oxford Community Schools from civil ...