Updated: 7:24 AM Students at Washington Woods Middle School in Holt are campaigning to stop the use of the "r" word, "retarded." The campaign is part of Project Unity, put on by Special Olympics.
Updated: 9:59 AM To help with much-needed improvements and upgrades to district buildings, Jackson Northwest Community Schools is proposing $40 million in bonds.
Updated: 9:37 AM Voters gave the go-ahead in November for Lansing City Council to sell the remaining Red Cedar land, so what's the hold up with the development project?
Updated: 9:57 AM Public testimony about the EAA started on Wednesday. EAA is a state-run system that could take over the lowest performing schools in the state.
Posted: 2:46 PM A lesbian couple's desire to adopt each other's children has grown into a potentially groundbreaking challenge to Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage.
Updated: 4:39 PM James Michael Larder II of Eaton Rapids was snowmobiling when he went through the ice on Mullet Lake in Cheboygan County Tuesday night.
Updated: 9:49 AM During March, Michiganders are just a phone call or a click away from getting a free at-home screening test for the nation’s third-most diagnosed cancer from McLaren Cancer Institute during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Posted: 10:51 AM Farmers and others who lost money because of Michigan crop failures last year have until the end of this month to seek loans under a state relief program.
Updated: 11:30 PM A judge ruling has thrown a wrench into the plans to build a casino in downtown Lansing, but both sides say it's still early in the game.
Updated: 11:17 PM Casey Caswell was back in court Tuesday. She's the biological mother of Ricky Holland, who was murdered by his foster parents in 2006, and Caswell is still trying to keep custody of one of her children.
Updated: 9:26 AM 49-year-old Wayne Michael Balcom was charged with embezzling more than $130,000 from his former employer, local doctor's office Holt Family Practice.
Updated: 3:36 PM A group is seeking state support for its proposal to open a charter school in western Michigan aiming to meet the academic needs of elite athletes.
Posted: 11:15 AM The Republican-led Michigan Senate has approved a bill to prohibit state regulators from classifying sections of state forest land to have biological diversity.
Updated: 12:03 AM The 'pro-Right to Work' group, Americans for Prosperity, held the first of several state town hall meetings in Jackson, Monday, hoping to address concerns the legislation will bring to Michigan.
