Snowfall measurements were extremely challenging as wind gusts to 60 mph resulted in blowing and drifting snow, with drifts of several feet reported.

Nearly half of Michigan's hospitals now sit in highly concentrated or monopoly markets, a new national mapping project finds. That shift leaves many communities with fewer hospital choices and adds fuel to long-running worries about rising local health costs.

A new Michigan map highlights stories of people fleeing enslavement in the mid-1800s, abolitionists who assisted them and communities that stepped up to protect people seeking freedom. The Michigan History Center, in partnership with the Michigan Freedom ...

Here's something to celebrate during the doldrums of mid-winter: It's Michigan's birthday! On January 26, 1837, this mitten-shaped swath of land and that beloved rugged piece of peninsula to the north jointly became the 26th state in the Union. This year ...

The Princeton Gerrymandering Project uses historical election data to analyze proposed maps on a variety of factors. Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is running out of time to finalize the political maps that will be used in the ...

In the Straits of Mackinac, about five miles west of the bridge, the ship known as Sandusky sits 85 feet deep in Lake Michigan, tipped slightly to port, but upright. It has rested there since September 1856. Hauling grain from Chicago to Buffalo, the ...

A sprawling, late-season winter storm is set to deliver a crippling blow to Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower Peninsula starting Saturday night.