Marquette County Sheriff George Zyburt urged minors who may be experiencing sextortion to reach out to a trusted adult.

Finding and keeping enough child care workers is a challenge. A new state-funded effort aims to raise wages, train workers and keep them in Michigan classrooms.

Michigan's early childhood agency announced a pilot program giving higher wages to child care workers in hopes of keeping ...

Detroit-based advocacy group Mothering Justice Action Fund hosted its annual State of the Mama event on Thursday night  “These are not abstract policy conversations. These are our realities,” said ...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared March as Reading Month in Michigan in a press release on Sunday. She highlighted her continued focus on literacy supporting readers through the new Every Child Reads ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trustee at Michigan State University (MSU) is standing firm in her demands for the institution to revisit diversity, equity, and ...

One of the central messages of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s final State of the State address was that kids in Michigan are struggling mightily to read at grade level. Michigan currently ranks 44th in ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered her eighth — and final — State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday evening. The term-limited Democrat touted past ...

A man accused of trying to meet a child for sex in Genesee County is now facing a slew of charges. Authorities allege that they found disturbing searches on Markantoney Taylor's phone, along with ...

Two people were shot outside a venue where a child's birthday party was being held Sunday. Kalamazoo police said a verbal fight escalated to a suspect shooting two people. One of those victims died.

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 2027 budget proposes the fewest number of state government jobs she has asked the Legislature to fund in four years, despite a request for nearly 1,000 new health ...

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge, with federal prosecutors saying he was logged into a chat account that he used to communicate with an ...