Mike Wilkinson

In just over five years, Michigan’s legal marijuana industry is nearing cumulative sales of over $10 billion. But rising demand has been more than met with supply and prices are at their lowest ever.

Last year, the Eden Prairie Lions Club collected about 8,000 pairs of used eyeglasses as part of Lions Clubs International's mission to improve vision worldwide.

As the holiday season brings a surge in online shopping and package deliveries, it also attracts an unwelcome visitor: porch pirates.

Back in the 1970s, there was a homeowner in southwest Minneapolis who, for many years at Christmastime, put a toilet seat on the front roof of the house and decorated it with Christmas lights.

Michigan's population rose 0.6% as more than 67,600 migrants moved to the state from July 2023 to July 2024. Also, losses to other states shrunk and the birth-death gap narrowed.

Once the No. 3 cause of death in Michigan, COVID-19 is attributed to 1,400 deaths so far in 2024. That’s half of the number who died in 2023 and a small percentage of those who died in 2020-22.

"We're going to bring back your car industry," President-elect Donald Trump promised in a September rally at Falk Panel in Walker. (Bridge photo by Brett Farmer)

Trump made dozens of promises during 21 campaign stops in Michigan, from lowering taxes to bringing back all auto jobs. We’ve chronicled them all and gauged what it would take to accomplish his goals.

Michigan has long lost more people to other states than have come to the state. But recent reports indicate the annual losses are shrinking substantially. (Shutterstock)

Fourth and eighth graders in Michigan made no improvements on reading and math scores on the "nation's report card" since 2019, recently released results show.