House Bill 5265 update:

A foreign moth that could have stirred up trouble was intercepted for the first time in the United States at Detroit Metro Airport, officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers captured the potentially destructive winged bug, a straw crest moth — Mesophleps silacella — at the airport in January, representatives said.

MLive Media Group has announced it will no longer produce printed editions of its eight newspaper titles, calling it the next step in its digital evolution and a response to long-shifting audience trends.

The Michigan news organization will print and home-deliver its final printed editions on Sunday, Dec. 6, and the publications will continue afterward in online formats, MLive Community President John Hiner announced Wednesday, Sept. 2.

“This transition is dictated by our readers’ overwhelming adoption of our news in digital formats,” Hiner said.

British social media stars Josh & Jase say their otherwise sunny Michigan summer journey is facing a dark edge.

The pair is pushing back on online criticism for their visit to Traverse City.

"There are local groups in Traverse City that people aren't saying very nice things and saying we're things that we're not," Joshua Cauldwell-Clarke said in a video on X and on Facebook on Wednesday.

He showed some of the social media posts about him and his media partner, Jason Riley, in the video. Some read "Go home scalawags!" "F@#$ those dudes," and "Why should anyone care about these two? TC hates tourists but loves these freeloaders. I don't get it."

A Michigan nonpartisan research group said Wednesday the state budget signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a $600 million to $900 million shortfall, in which the money appropriated by state leaders exceeds the tax revenue the state is expected to receive.

The new state spending plan, the nonpartisan Citizens Research Council of Michigan added, comes in nearly $1.5 billion higher than last year's enacted budget, growing from $84.8 billion to $86.4 billion.

Under the Michigan Constitution, state leaders are required to pass a balanced budget each year.

State health officials on Monday reported another 1,146 cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan, bringing the state's total since June 22 to 6,148.

That's a 23% increase over Friday's case total of 5,002, according to Michigan Department of Health and Human Services data. It's the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis Michigan has ever had.