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The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Capitol Bureau Chief Rick Pluta says the Flint water crisis will be part of the history of the Snyder administration,…

The first new WestSouthwest of 2016 focuses on the year ahead in state government. The Michigan Public Radio Network's Capitol Bureau Chief Rick Pluta…

Thursday was shaping up to be another tumultuous day in the financial markets. Stock prices were falling after a big selloff in Asia and Europe. The trouble seems to have started in China.

Two years ago, in January 2013, oil was about $100 dollars a barrel. At that time, towns near new oil fields expanded rapidly, filling up with workers and overflowing revenue. But how are those towns doing now that oil is worth about half what it was then? The Planet Money team checks in with oil workers and residents in Williston, N.D.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Cate Blanchett about playing the title character in Carol, which tells the story of two women who fall in love in 1950s New York.

Martin Luther King Day is coming up this month. And while many organizations will celebrate the civil rights leader with speeches and commemorative…

(MPRN-Lansing) It’s looking less likely that there will be a ballot question in November to overhaul Michigan’s medical marijuana system. A group that was…

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was recaptured by Mexican authorities on Friday after months on the run. A former drug prosecutor predicts that Mexico will continue to resist pressure to extradite Guzman.

Armed men are occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge, demanding the federal government give up the land. But there's another group with roots there: the Burns Paiute tribe. And they're not happy.

Anti-federalist protesters in Oregon have now occupied buildings at a national wildlife refuge for more than a week.