Bill Huizenga

After winning exemptions from environmental laws for more than a decade, owners of the last coal-powered steamship on the Great Lakes agreed Friday to a court-enforced deadline to stop dumping toxic pollution into Lake Michigan. But the proposed legal...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat would stop dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan within two years under a deal with federal regulators announced Friday. The agreement between Lake Michigan Carferry,...

WASHINGTON — While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013. That's because the legislation did nothing to...

American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what’s best for them either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins could...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Lake Michigan ferry that travels between Wisconsin and Michigan would be allowed to stay afloat even though it dumps 500 tons of coal ash into the lake each season, under a special provision added to a bill pending in Congress....

WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what's best for them either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them...

DETROIT (AP) — Republicans are heading into Election Day with a two-seat majority in Michigan's congressional delegation and high hopes of maintaining the edge, but three surprisingly close races have Democrats eyeing a previously unexpected...

Pete Hoekstra, candidate for the U.S. Senate, will make two campaign stops in Wyoming on Tuesday. The stops are part of his "We Did Build This" tour. Hoekstra is the Republican challenger to Democratic incumbent senator Debbie Stabenow. Hoekstra will...

Muskegon county farms will welcome elected officials from local, state and federal governments today. Congressman Bill Huizenga and Senator Debbie Stabenow are two of the federal officials who plan to be there. The lawmakers will tour the farms,...

The state's representatives in Washington and Lansing were quick to issue statements on the U.S. Supreme Courtdecision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Grand Rapids, in a post on his Facebook page, chose to...

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — William Van Regenmorter, a former West Michigan lawmaker whose noteworthy accomplishments included his authorship of the state’s Crime Victim’s Rights Act of 1985, has died. He was 73. Van Regenmorter,...

Facing a deadline to stop dumping toxic coal ash into Lake Michigan, owners of the last coal-powered steamship on the Great Lakes are pushing for it to join Mount Vernon, Lincoln's Tomb and Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace as a protected national...