DETROIT— providers across parts of Michigan and the Midwest are warning that complex local regulations and licensing requirements are making it harder to open and sustain childcare businesses, potentially limiting options for working parents already facing long waitlists.

MACKINAC- Mackinac Island keeps winning “best summer destination” awards, and after about five minutes there, you understand why.

ROGERS CITY, Mich.— By all appearances, Michigan has finally reached the point where a child with a folding table and a pitcher of lemonade is now considered a regulatory threat.

WARREN, Mich.— In the blue-collar gut of Warren, Michigan, Shaw Park has always spoken in something close to plain English—baseball stitched into summer evenings, football stamped into fall Saturdays, the kind of predictable geometry that made the Midwest feel like it knew exactly what it was doing.

WARREN, Mich. — Cities spend a lot of time talking about development. New businesses. New construction. New tax revenue. Ribbon cuttings. Groundbreakings. Press releases.

DETROIT, Mich.— Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Thursday that he is ending his independent campaign for Michigan governor, a move expected to reshape Michigan’s 2026 gubernatorial race.

Lansing, Mich,- House Republicans pushed through a massive $5.5 billion tax relief package late last night, signaling a high-stakes shift in Michigan’s fiscal landscape. The eight-bill series passed along party lines, aiming to deliver what House Speaker Matt Hall calls the largest property tax cut in state history.

DETROIT— There are people who affect our lives in small ways that end up meaning more than we realize. Sometimes we give those people their flowers while they’re here. Sometimes we don’t fully understand what they meant to us until it’s too late.

DETROIT, Michigan - In Detroit, the distance between an official press release and the truth can sometimes be measured in truckloads of dirt.

For some people, Big Boy is just another roadside diner with a cartoon statue out front. For us? It’s history. It’s muscle memory. It’s home.

Residents across several Oakland County communities are navigating a significant public health emergency following the rupture of a 42-inch water transmission main in Auburn Hills. The break, which occurred at River Woods Park during the early morning hours of May 10, 2026, prompted Governor Gretchen Whitmer to declare a State of Emergency, alongside localized emergency declarations in Auburn Hills and Orion Township.

DETROIT, Michigan- The landscape of southeast Michigan is showing continued signs of recovery, as newly released U.S. Census Bureau estimates confirm that Detroit has recorded population growth for the third consecutive year. Federal estimates show the city gained roughly 3,390 residents over the past year, reinforcing what local leaders describe as a sustained demographic and economic rebound.

BALDWIN, MI — North Lake Processing Center sits in the pine woods of Lake County like an old casino with the windows painted black. You know something’s happening inside. You just don’t know whether it’s bookkeeping or body disposal.

LANSING, Mich. — Planned Parenthood of Michigan says it is staring down what it calls an “irreversible loss of reproductive health infrastructure” and is now requesting a $5 million emergency cash infusion from Governor Gretchen Whitmer to keep clinics from shutting their doors.

DETROIT — For more than a decade, Mary Barra has stood as the steady hand guiding General Motors through recalls, labor fights, electric vehicle expansion, and a rapidly changing automotive world. But inside Detroit’s corporate and manufacturing circles, pressure surrounding Barra’s leadership is beginning to intensify from nearly every direction.

ROMULUS, MI — Plans were unveiled today for Motown Sports Village, a massive $3 billion youth sports and family entertainment destination located immediately adjacent to Detroit Metro Airport. Spanning 452 acres, the project aims to become a global hub for the $47 billion youth sports tourism industry.

WARREN, MI — For drivers in Warren and Sterling Heights, Mound Road hasn’t been a commute so much as a rolling endurance trial. Every cracked lane, every axle-rattling pothole, every surprise traffic backup has felt like Southeast Michigan’s unofficial reminder that infrastructure in this state is usually held together with cold patch and prayer.

DEROIT, MI—There are neighborhoods in Detroit that people pass through without ever asking how they came to be. Blocks of aging brick. Factories gone quiet. Tavern lights glowing against cracked pavement. Street names spoken so casually that nobody stops to wonder who laid the first boards, drove the first stakes, or imagined a future where there had once only been swamp grass and wind.

PORT HURON, MI — The United States Senate has unanimously approved the PIPELINE Safety Act, a bipartisan measure introduced by Michigan Senator [Gary Peters] aimed at significantly strengthening the security and monitoring of critical energy infrastructure across the Great Lakes region.

For one night at least, the idea that going out in America has become unaffordable didn’t hold true. Last Saturday, a friend and I made the trip to the historic Senate Theater for a screening of the classic Blazing Saddles. Neither of us had ever been there before, and personally, I hadn’t stepped inside a real movie theater in years.