Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she is working on an alternative roads plan to promote in her second year in office after the Legislature rejected a proposed 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase, but she did not release details.

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Michigan says it remains willing to contribute $8 million toward the initial stages of a project to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

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The Michigan Department of Transportation gave the gravel industry considerable influence in a state-funded study that found looming shortages in materials used to build highways, possibly undermining the report's credibility and wasting taxpayers' money, auditors said Friday.

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The Republican-led Michigan Legislature gave approval Tuesday to $44.7 billion in state spending, including $400 million for roads and bridges.

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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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