Latest Michigan Headlines
All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Residents of Michigan Border Towns Reject Expansion of Cannabis Stores
Nov 13 2025 // In the summer, the board in mostly rural Niles Township gave a preliminary OK to 21 cannabis stores along one road currently dotted with businesses and surrounded by farmland. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, voters rejected them...
Michigan Attorney General Urges Lawmakers to Strengthen Anti-Terrorism Law
Nov 12 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Deputy Solicitor General Eric Restuccia testified before the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety Committee last week in support of a bill that would strengthen the...
Michigan Insurance Agent Charged with Embezzling Funds from Municipalities
Nov 12 2025 // A Michigan insurance agent was arraigned on Oct. 31 in Oakland County District Court for allegedly forging letters from his insurance clients to embezzle funds, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Robert...
AM Best Revises Outlook to Positive for Michigan Millers Mutual
Nov 7 2025 // AM Besthas revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICR of “a” (Excellent) of Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company...
Michigan Regulators to Start Enforcing 2020 Industrial Farm Pollution Law
Nov 4 2025 // More than five years after first announcing stricter controls on industrial farm pollution in Michigan, state environmental regulators will finally start enforcing them. Regulations issued Wednesday by the Michigan...
GM to Cut EV, Battery Production and 1,200 Jobs at Michigan Plant
Oct 30 2025 // General Motors GM.N said on Wednesday it will cut U.S. electric vehicle and battery production and 1,200 factory jobs at its EV plant in Detroit along with 550 jobs at an Ohio battery plant as the automaker responds to a...
Michigan Acquires Shipwreck Artifact in Unusual Settlement Agreement
Oct 30 2025 // The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald, a rare artifact that strangely became part of a settlement in a lawsuit that had nothing to do with the famous...
Rockford Mutual Launches Commercial Auto in Michigan
Oct 21 2025 // Rockford Mutual Insurance Company (RMIC) announced the official launch of commercial auto coverage in Michigan, effective immediately. With this latest addition, RMIC now offers a complete suite of commercial insurance...
Michigan DIFS Reminds Consumers to Practice Cybersecurity Awareness
Oct 20 2025 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services is using cybersecurity awareness month to remind residents to take proactive steps to protect themselves from scammers and cyberattacks. Some steps that consumers...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Michigan’s Strategic Services Group
Oct 16 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Rochester Hills, Michigan-based Strategic Services Group, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Strategic Services Group provides employee benefits...
Researchers Uncover 140-Year-Old Shipwreck at Bottom of Lake Michigan
Oct 6 2025 // After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline. The...
EPA Seeks $140M Penalty for Michigan’s Worst Sulfur Dioxide Polluter
Oct 3 2025 // When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility...
Michigan Reaches Settlements With Paper Mill Over PFAS Contamination
Sep 23 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has reached two settlement agreements with the current and past owners of a paper mill in White Pigeon, Michigan. The two settlements secure funding for response activities to address...
Researchers Uncover 140-Year-Old Shipwreck at Bottom of Lake Michigan
Sep 18 2025 // After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline. The...
Michigan Auto Parts Manufacturer Sued for Discrimination
Sep 17 2025 // An auto parts manufacturer with a facility in Plymouth, Michigan, violated federal law when it refused to allow an older, female worker with a disability to re-enter its apprenticeship program, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Michigan Manufacturer to Pay $460K to Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Sep 10 2025 // East Jordan Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers, will pay $460,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Crumbling Michigan Dam Reveals Potential Risks of Private Hydroelectric Ownership
Aug 27 2025 // Amid stacked rows of brightly colored plastic kayaks and canoes, Khrystal Crosno recently helped an Ann Arbor family begin a floating trip along the scenic AuTrain River. The Earl family should spot turtles, herons and...
Rockford Mutual Launches Commercial Insurance Offerings in Michigan
Aug 18 2025 // Rockford Mutual announced the official launch of their suite of commercial insurance products in the state of Michigan, effective August 18, 2025 This strategic expansion includes Businessowners Policies (BOP), Commercial...
Six Killed in Michigan Collision Between Truck and Van Carrying Amish Group
Aug 18 2025 // A pickup truck went through a stop sign in rural Michigan and crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish community, killing at least six people, authorities said. The crash occurred last Tuesday afternoon in Tuscola...
Michigan Man Wins $60M in False Charges Case
Aug 18 2025 // A jury awarded nearly $60 million last week to a man who accused a disgraced Michigan prosecutor and a police officer of violating his rights in filing sexual abuse charges in a case that was ultimately dismissed by the...
