GM employee and union member Nicole Henning will head to the picket line on Thursday as she has for the past five weeks. 

The Lansing Delta Township Assembly worker gets the 8 p.m. to midnight shift. She says everyone is working hard to keep up their morale.

"It's cold out there now," says Henning. "It's weird, because the first few weeks, it was warm out, we still wore T-shirts. And now people are pulling out their winter coats and burning a lot of wood and trying to make it through the night."

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has launched a new initiative to guide the state's transformation to cleaner energy. It's called MI Power Grid. 

The Michigan Public Service Commission is in charge of the initiative. 

MPSC Chair Sally Talberg says part of MI Power Grid will be focused on energy customers, to help them benefit from the transition, and reduce their energy use and costs.

Wayne County is in the middle of an effort to reduce its jail population, and it’s just received some early data to help guide that effort.

The county is teaming up with the New York-based Vera Institute of Justice to figure out who goes to jail, and who might not need to be there.

The findings of a $100,000 study were improperly influenced by lobbyists. That’s according to a new state Auditor General report.

According to emails and documents obtained by the Detroit Free Press, the Michigan Aggregates Association was a primary gravel lobbying firm that influenced the study.

More than 50 percent of Michigan’s birds could go extinct if nothing is done to combat climate change.

That's according to a report from the Audubon Society.