Winnie Brinks

The state Legislature is giving itself another seven days to finalize a new state budget. We have more from Colin Jackson and Rick Pluta in this joint report.

This is a big week in Lansing as lawmakers return to the Capitol to vote on a new state budget just ahead of the constitutional deadline. Rick Pluta reports.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer and legislative leaders announced Thursday that they’ve struck a bargain to adopt a balanced state budget and avert a partial government shutdown. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Michigan is a little more than a week away from the deadline to adopt a budget. As Rick Pluta reports, there are no signals a bipartisan deal in the Legislature is any closer to averting a partial state government shutdown on October 1.

Public school bathrooms and locker rooms would have to be restricted based on students’ sex assigned at birth under a Republican-sponsored bill adopted Thursday by the state House. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The lieutenant governor and some Lansing lawmakers passed out lunches to elementary school students on Tuesday in the capital city. Colin Jackson has more.

After months of waiting, the Michigan House passed the rest of its roughly $78 billion state budget proposal Tuesday. Colin Jackson has more.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is meeting with the Democratic leader of the Michigan Senate and Republican Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives today to discuss the budget.

Both leaders of the Michigan Legislature say they’d support withholding lawmakers' pay if the state goes into a government shutdown. Michigan Public Radio’s Colin Jackson has more.

Michigan kids are going back to school soon, and districts still don’t know how much state funding they'll get for the new year. Colin Jackson has more on how state legislative leadership is responding.