Welcome to Michigan Political News & Notes, a weekly look at what's happening in Lansing and around the state. Here is a compilation of some of the week's biggest headlines: Jill Haver-Crissman ...

Ohio's leaders previously approved $4.3 million to help boost security in Dayton during the NATO visit this Memorial Day ...

Michigan State Police have a total of 57 Emergency Support Team members after nine graduated from an intensive 10-week academy this week.

Michigan State Rep. Jerry Neyer and a colleague from Kent County have taken the first steps to modernize the criteria for ...

Southridge Behavioral Hospital opens near Grand Rapids with 96 beds, expanding inpatient mental health care in West Michigan.

With the end of the academic year fast approaching, the Michigan Senate approved a bill on Wednesday, May 21 that will allow ...

Yet even as the number of clinics has dropped nationally, about 80% of clinician-provided abortions are still done by ...

Across Northern Michigan, farmers are still reeling from a historic March ice storm that devastated farms and delayed ...

Michigan currently ranks 47th in the nation for inpatient psychiatric bed availability, with only five beds for every 100,000 residents, according to the Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA) ...

Michigan faces a critical shortage of mental health beds with only 5 psychiatric beds per 100,000 people, leaving 155 ...

Mental health advocates met at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing Wednesday in hopes of highlighting the needs of patients for critical infrastructure, long-term hospital beds, ...

Extreme weather is becoming the norm in Michigan, driven by climate change, writes Sierra Club's Elayne Coleman, who says environmental protections from the federal and state government are more ...