Jennifer Granholm

LANSING (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will deliver his first annual State of the State address on Jan. 19, the earliest date in more than a decade, his communications director told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Snyder will give the address...

LANSING (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder says he still hasn't decided how much he'll take in salary as Michigan's new governor. The independently wealthy Republican said Monday it will be less than the official rate of $159,300 set in 2009 after the...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Maj. Gen. Gregory J. Vadnais has been named the new military and veterans affairs director under Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. According to the department's website, Vadnais was sworn in Saturday as adjutant general of the...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former computer company executive who was a relative unknown less than two years ago is set to become Michigan's next governor. Rick Snyder is scheduled to take the oath of office and become the state's 48th governor at...

Can new Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder succeed in turning around Michigan’s floundering economy by, as he calls it, reinventing the state? Only time will tell, but a couple of state lawmakers from Berrien County seem to think he’s capable of the...

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's proposed ban on burning household waste is up in smoke. Public outcry caused the Department of Environmental Quality to yank the policy Monday. It will hold another series of public hearings, probably by summer. Spokesman...

NILES -- Will state retirees see their pensions taxed as Gov. Rick Snyder has proposed? It’s too soon to say what the Legislature will do with the proposal but one state lawmaker has an idea. “I suspect you’re going to see some...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some Michigan lawmakers are making another attempt to ban a procedure they call "partial-birth abortion" in state law. A bill that would enact a state-level ban on the late-term procedure was approved Tuesday by the...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's child-welfare agency says it wants to hire more than 500 new college graduates as it tries to comply with an agreement to improve foster care, protective services and other responsibilities. The Department of Human...

LANSING -- Gov. Rick Snyder is changing the size and makeup of the Michigan parole board, undoing many of the changes his predecessor put in place to speed up the release of prison inmates eligible for parole. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm...

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians will be making its 6 percent economic incentive payment to the state. During a regular meeting on Sunday, Feb. 6, members of tribal council voted 7-0, with two members absent, to direct the Odawa Casino...

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's starring role as a darling of the movie industry may be about to end up on the cutting room floor. Gov. Rick Snyder's first budget proposal calls for the elimination of the film tax incentive program — one of the...