A Michigan Department of Corrections report says the rate of repeat offenders being returned to prisons is at an all-time low. We have more from Rick Pluta.

More Michigan students who start a post-secondary degree or certificate are finishing within eight years. Colin Jackson has more on state data released this week.

School districts face tough choices as their fiscal years began Tuesday while the Legislature remains deadlocked on a state K-12 budget. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan House voted this week to ban certain dyes and additives from school foods. Colin Jackson has more.

Michigan schools won’t have a new budget from the state for at least two weeks. Colin Jackson reports that’s after lawmakers missed a statutory deadline Tuesday for passing one.

The director of the Michigan State Police spent an hour and a half Tuesday taking questions from lawmakers about morale in a department that appears skeptical of his leadership. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A ballot campaign planning to launch soon would ask voters to ban political donations from committees affiliated with utility monopolies and from with public contractors. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up a case concerning a lawsuit over the Line 5 oil pipeline that runs through the Straits of Mackinac. Colin Jackson has more.

The Michigan House and Senate are pushing a vote on a new budget for K-12 schools into next week. Colin Jackson has more on the negotiations Thursday that led to the decision.

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the state of Michigan does not have to destroy data gleaned from infant blood samples collected by hospitals at birth. Rick Pluta has more.

Ghost guns—often built at home from kits or 3-D printed parts—would become banned in Michigan under bills that passed the state Senate Wednesday. Colin Jackson has more.

A state House committee voted along party lines Wednesday for a bill to blunt the effects of a Michigan Supreme Court decision. The ruling says 19- and 20-year-olds cannot be automatically sentenced to life-without-parole. Rick Pluta has more.