presidential race

Already, nearly a million Michiganders have cast their absentee ballots.

Today, the dangers that remain in Lake Erie, 10 years after a water crisis in Toledo made the water undrinkable for three days. Also, Traverse City voters prepare to decide on a nearly $200 million bond measure to improve energy efficiency for their schools. Plus, in case you missed it, highlights and hot takes on hot political races from our Issues & Ale event in Lansing this week.

Analyzing Michigan's "Uncommitted" vote from this week's presidential primary, new ways to connect small farms to city consumers, and celebrating Grand Rapids' Latino history.

A food co-op opening in Detroit, the best advice on resilience, the mystery behind the SS Arlington, and election year analysis of the issues facing and enthusiasm of Black voters from a longtime Detroit journalist.

A new poll by Epic MRA on behalf of the Detroit Free Press and other news media outlets across the state shows that Donald Trump has cut into Hillary…

A picture of Donald Trump and "Little Miss Flint" has people on the internet talking.Amariyanna Copeny, aka Little Miss Flint, and her mother Lulu…

A conservative group is running ads this week in Michigan and three other states asking Republican Donald Trump to withdraw from the presidential race.The…

In his column for The Detroit News today, Daniel Howes argues that the “presidential circus” is misreading the auto comeback in Michigan.He begins with a…

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the White House, he did it to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” It didn’t take very long…

Candidates often publicize the amount of money they have raised by including it in press releases or newsletters. But with campaign financing often…