Republican state House Speaker Matt Hall says he's forming a new committee to review spending and regulations, raising fears the Legislature will miss a budget deadline.

A pro-clean energy group says the U.S. House reconciliation budget bill would virtually halt industry development of large-scale solar, wind and battery storage projects in Michigan and the nation.

In the Glengariff-Group poll, 45.5% of respondents said Michigan was on the right track, down from 52% in January.

Water-based economic researchers in the Great Lakes region are seeing U.S. government resistance to funding world-changing hub for water technology.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she wants to use state incentives to lure a giant semiconductor manufacturing facility that would employ thousands of people.

Decades of industrial pollution on Lake Superior has seen stretches of its shore deemed areas of environmental concern for both Canada and the U.S. A massive investment of time and money is letting nature return.

A reintroduced state House bill proposes an abandoned Bay Region prison be repurposed for public use.

One of the lowest income cities in Michigan has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists and locals warn of high costs to water, climate and community.

Glyphosate is the best-selling farm chemical ever in American agriculture. $2.8 billion in annual sales and roughly 280 million pounds applied annually on U.S. crop fields, most of it on corn and soybeans in Michigan and other Midwest farm states.

A state panel has delivered the official revenue numbers the governor and the Legislature use to craft the new state budget. But they came with warnings of uncertainty.