Michigan

A Michigan infrastructure trade group has launched a campaign to help residents and lawmakers understand the scale of state underfunding for roads and transportation.

A Michigan House committee will resume hearings on a plan to limit retirement healthcare benefits for municipal workers in the New Year.

A proposed continuing resolution that would fund federal programs and services through April 28, 2017, and a long-awaited bipartisan water bill would provide about $170 million For Flint, Mich., and other water infrastructure health initiatives.

Michigan needs to spend an extra $4 billion annually to create 21st century transportation, water, wastewater, and communications infrastructure systems, according to a commission formed by Gov. Rick Snyder.

The Michigan House on Thursday began hearings on a plan introduced by House Republicans to limit retirement healthcare benefits for police officers, firefighters and other government workers in cash-strapped municipalities across the state.

The Michigan Senate advanced a series of bills designed to offer financial aid to “transformational” development projects.

Detroit officials say savings from a bond refinancing will cover the $34 million cost of adapting the design of a halfway-finished pro hockey arena to include the region's pro basketball franchise.

The Michigan Finance Authority’s successful restructuring of $226.3 million of Detroit Public Schools bonds helped the district earn a two notch ratings upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service.

Wayne County, Mich., got the green light to complete construction of a new downtown Detroit county jail, which will require $200 million of bond funding.

Highland Park, Michigan says it shouldn’t be on the hook to repay $30 million to the Great Lakes Water Authority, saying they stem from overcharges related in part to a bond sale and forward swap losses.

Midwestern voters delivered mixed results on transportation proposals Tuesday while picking new governors and settling legislative races that stand to impact fiscal decisions in Illinois and Minnesota.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District will take over the schools currently run by the Educational Achievement Authority, which competes with district for state school funding dollars.

Wayne County, Michigan is asking voters Tuesday for a millage proposal that would raise an additional $385 per student for its 33 school districts.

Several Michigan school districts that are asking voters Tuesday for 'sinking fund' millages, local property taxes that fund major repairs and renovations to school buildings, will miss out on the expanded uses of the tax authorized by new legislation.

Two federal judges who helped navigate Detroit’s historic bankruptcy will join a Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone principal to launch a downtown Detroit office of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services.

Michigan’s Muskegon Heights School District is ready to transition out of emergency management after shaving nearly $10 million of its deficit in the four years since it’s been under state oversight.

Two decisions in recent days pave the way forward for lawsuits against the state of Michigan and its officials over Flint’s water contamination crisis.

The Michigan Finance Authority hits the market Wednesday with a top-rated $300 million new money and refunding under its clean water revenue bond program.

Public finance veteran Kevin Smith started his job as Highland Park, Mich., school district's next emergency manger Friday.

Detroit will get a fourth round of federal funding for its ongoing blight demolition program after a suspension due to procedural errors.