A top Democratic lawmaker says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's proposed 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase is dead, and proposals such as raising the corporate income tax and taxing heavy trucks must be considered.

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Over and over, Michigan environmental regulators had sounded alarms as they reviewed a proposed large, open-pit ore mine in the Upper Peninsula near the Menominee River, prized for walleye fishing and being a tributary to Lake Michigan.

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The Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee waded into a Great Lakes regional controversy on Wednesday, calling for the defeat of a plan to build a disputed oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel that connects two of the lakes.

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Michigan's governor has signed legislation honoring the late Queen of Soul with a highway designation.

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Plans are moving forward on $4.9 million in improvements at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Detroit's Belle Isle.

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The Michigan attorney general sued Thursday to shut down dual oil pipelines in the Great Lakes, saying they pose an "unacceptable risk."

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Michigan officials on Wednesday began informing the public of tougher sampling rules they expect to result in more drinking-water systems exceeding limits for lead, a byproduct of new regulations enacted after Flint's troubles.

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Michigan Republicans on Thursday released a budget plan that would dedicate Michigan's 6% sales tax on motor fuel to road construction, which they said could avoid a 45-cents-a-gallon gasoline and diesel-tax increase proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Wednesday she will try in June to shut down a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with the operator of the line, Enbridge, saying the state will be in "great peril" if oil continues to flow under a delicate waterway.

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A Michigan lawmaker has been charged with seeking a bribe from a labor union in exchange for a vote to not overturn his state's prevailing-wage laws.

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