Michigan

Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, blasted the Senate Democrats for putting “crazy Uncle Bernie” in charge of the Senate Budget Committee while speaking at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference in Michigan Friday night.

Ford Motor Co. revved up surprise second-quarter profits this year – powered by climbing pickup and SUV prices even as a global computer chip shortage forced it to pump the brakes on production.

The United Auto Workers union says it got $1.1 million for a lakefront house in northern Michigan that was being built for former president Dennis Williams, who was sentenced to prison in a federal corruption probe.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday announced a plan to allow people to work part-time and continue receiving unemployment benefits simultaneously.

The more than six-decade-old Line 5 pipeline transports up to 23 million gallons of oil and natural gas liquids per day from Superior, Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ontario, taking a shortcut through Michigan and along the lake bottom of the Straits of Mackinac.