Senators' main questions Thursday for Department of Transportation officials about the governor's proposed budget centered on the level of marijuana revenues it is receiving and on the level of debt service payments that could be made.
Campaign finance reports filed Friday in the two special primary elections for a pair of House seats showed Mai Xiong of Warren with a huge financial edge over her two opponents in the 13th House District, and Westland City Councilmember Andrea Rutkowski leading her main competitors in the 25th House District.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge is planning a fall 2025 opening, officials said Thursday.
A story interviewing Department of Transportation Director Brad Wieferich in the December 8 report contained an incorrect split in road funds between state and local agencies. The breakdown for the Michigan Transportation Fund is split 39 percent for the state, 39 percent for counties and 22 percent for cities and villages.
A story in Friday's Michigan Report interviewing Department of Transportation Director Brad Wieferich incorrectly referenced the wrong section of I-96 for a project. The flex route project on I-96 is in the Novi area in Oakland County.
There is no one solution that will fully fix the state's road funding woes, Department of Transportation Director Brad Wieferich said in an interview this week, adding the agency will also continue putting its all into transformational projects and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Three executives of a firm hired by the Michigan Department of Transportation to conduct surveying work fraudulently inflated overhead costs through the use of ghost employees to enrich themselves from funds meant for federal highway work, federal prosecutors charged in a Thursday indictment.
An executive directive from the governor requesting departments and agencies quicken the permitting process came in early August, but the circumstances that led to the governor's directive remain a mystery and obtaining records that might shed light on the reasoning has proven difficult.
The use of seat belts is declining in Michigan, a state that has been a national leader in safety belt use, according to the latest statistics from the Department of State Police.
The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority said in a new release Wednesday that the final steps for completing towers on the Gordie Howe International Bridge are ongoing, with the U.S. tower now at its full height of 722 feet.