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Washington — A new bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate aims to ensure accountability and neutrality in the peer review process used by the Department of Veteran...

IDA – The Ida Township Fire Department received $200,000 Wednesday. The funds will be used to staff the volunteer fire department during daytime hours on weekdays. The funding...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new drug investigation conducted by a Senate committee, shows the US is facing a shortage of critical drugs. Drugs that are used against the common cold or flu...

A new investigation lead by Michigan Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township) finds the U.S. heavily relies on foreign countries to produce prescription and over-the-counter...

WASHINGTON (WKZO-AM/FM) – Although the COVID 19 outbreak happened three years ago, its effects have lingered in many different ways. A report released earlier this month by...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted today to approve several bills that impact government technology use including legislation on open source...

Michigan has the most effective United States senator in the nation, according to a research center that studies Congress, and it also has one of the least effective. Democratic...

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., reintroduced bipartisan legislation...

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, presided over a hearing focused on the modernization of the U.S....

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., have reintroduced legislation that seeks to help the federal government save costs by overseeing how agencies...

Researchers again ranked Michigan U.S. Sen. Gary Peters as the "most effective" senator at lawmaking for the last two-year term of Congress. The nonpartisan Center...

PORT HURON — An effort to speed the movement of trucks carrying goods across the Blue Water Bridge is getting a major boost from $1.8 million in federal funds. In a news...

Bipartisan legislation that aims to improve management of how the Federal government purchases and uses software was reintroduced in the both the Senate and the House...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michigan Senator Gary Peters visited the Grand Rapids Fire Department Headquarters Friday to talk about his efforts to boost federal support for local...

In his second appearance before U.S. senators in two weeks, Norfolk Southern’s chief executive was pressed Wednesday to move beyond the railroad’s apologies...

Patients and medical providers who rely on pharmaceutical medications to treat everything from asthma to ADHD to cancer may have had a harder time finding those medications last...

WASHINGTON — Children's medication, antibiotics and treatment for ADHD are among a number of drugs that have been in short supply in recent months...

U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on Wednesday announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding Chippewa County International Airport $1,448,322 to repair...

Washington — The United States is overly reliant on China, India and other countries for crucial pharmaceutical drugs, which has contributed to shortages over the last...

Washington ― A bipartisan group of Great Lakes lawmakers introduced a resolution in Congress on Wednesday to oppose a Canadian proposal to permanently store spent...