Local entities are asking Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to call a special election to fill the 35th District State Senate seat vacated by Sen. Kristen McDonald Rivet after her election to the U.S. Congress.

Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson officially joined the governor’s race to replace Governor Gretchen Whitmer. What do the two Democrats have in common? They were both targeted by armed and violent MAGA protesters before Jan.

MICHIGAN — Michigan voters will choose a new governor in November 2026. Current Governor Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited after serving back-to-back four year stints in Lansing. We are keeping track of candidates who throw their hats in the ring below.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson becomes the first major Democratic candidate to launch a bid to be Michigan's next governor.

LANSING — Michigan's governor and lawmakers would no longer be exempted from public-records requests under bills that won overwhelming, bipartisan Senate approval on Wednesday, the latest step in a yearslong effort to expand the state Freedom of Information Act.

Currently, Michigan is one of only a handful of states that exempts the state legislature and governor's office from FOIA requests.

After Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) announced Tuesday he wouldn’t be seeking reelection, Michigan got another hotly contested open seat for the 2026 elections. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is term-limited,

Gary Peters' exit creates a highly contested U.S. Senate battleground seat expected to be coveted by both major political parties.

Mallory McMorrow, a state senator who won national Democratic acclaim in 2022 with a speech defending liberal values while identifying herself as a “straight, white, Christian, married suburban mom,” said she had not ruled out a run for either governor or the Senate.

The mother of a man from Michigan on death row in Alabama delivered a letter and petition signatures to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Tuesday asking her to intervene.