A look into concerns about poor medical conditions at North Lake's ICE detention center. Plus, a Michigan author's debut romance novel set in the Upper Peninsula.

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall hints at a sweeping property tax overhaul, echoing Proposal A and setting up a consequential fight ahead of the 2026 elections.

The late Lucile Watts was the first Black woman elected to a circuit court in Michigan. Michigan Public spoke with her former colleague, retired Judge Cynthia Stephens.

The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy.

Commentator John U. Bacon joins Morning Edition to talk about Olympic ice hockey, college hockey, and the Michigan and Michigan State men's basketball teams.

It's natural for political parties to evolve. Over the course of time, they adjust to meet the realities of their current era. A century ago, the Democratic Party was primarily a combination of Jim Crow southerners and working-class northerners. Sixty years later it started shifting more toward the party of minorities and women. And today, it's the neurotic, often self-defeating mishmash that we all know.

Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working.

A plan to prepare Michigan for the possibility of a federal constitutional convention got a state House committee hearing Thursday.

In a press conference Thursday afternoon, elected officials, faith leaders, and immigrant rights advocates voiced their concern about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s expansion into Michigan communities.

Former residents of Vista Maria, a mental health and social services facility for girls and women in need in Dearborn Heights, are planning a lawsuit. They allege decades of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, with staff failing to intervene.

Is Jackson, Michigan, the true birthplace of the Republican party? Author and vice president of the Jackson Historical Society Linda Hass makes a masterful case that yes, Jackson is the birthplace of the Republican Party.

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall says he will soon roll out plans soon to reduce real estate and property taxes without cutting funds for schools and local governments.