Bills that passed in the Michigan House Thursday would ban transgender athletes from girls’ school sports. Opponents say that further harms already-marginalized students.

The Republican-led state House adopted a resolution to hold Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in contempt for failing to comply with a legislative subpoena.

More than 600,000 Hoosiers would likely lose access to some or all of their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits under the massive federal bill approved by U.S. House Republicans Thursday.

The Republican-led Michigan House voted Wednesday to ask the Democratic-led state Senate to take back the budget proposal that it passed last week.

Michigan bills to further prevent the use of ticket-buying bots received a House committee hearing Wednesday.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she wants to use state incentives to lure a giant semiconductor manufacturing facility that would employ thousands of people.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita touted his work fighting illegal immigration Wednesday during a trip to the United States’ southern border.

Indiana’s unemployment rate has steadily improved over the last four months, according to the latest preliminary labor data. The state's unemployment rate fell below 4 percent for the first time since last June.

Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — roughly equal to more than five Hoover Dams. Most of that will be on the ground — something some rural Hoosiers don’t like. There could be another option — put solar on hundreds of millions of square feet of unused space on top of big box stores and warehouses.

The Republican chair of the Michigan House Oversight Committee wants Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to personally explain why a system to collect elected officials’ financial disclosure statements doesn’t work.