Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday that it’s time to speed things up and make Michigan's general permitting process clearer, faster and more efficient. To that end, her office will establish recommended deadlines to process applications and require that application...

A Michigan federal judge sentenced Barry Croft Jr. to nearly 20 years for his part as the co-leader of a conspiracy to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This was the longest sentence yet in the bizarre case that could potentially have resulted in untold violence based on social...