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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Genesee County Circuit Judge F. Kay Behm to be the U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of...

A bill designed to help target Natural Disaster Mitigation funding is heading to the President’s desk after making it through the House. The legislation would require the...

Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rick Scott (R-FL) that requires...

Federal legislation that aims to protect certain metropolitan areas, including six in Michigan, from losing key federal funding has been signed into law. The Metropolitan Areas...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A bill was signed into law that would protect communities in Michigan from losing access to federal funding when the population threshold changes. The bill...

EPA is seeking to require industrial facilities to report “forever chemical” releases at lower thresholds and concentrations — a big win for environmental...

Federal agencies will soon have to think more carefully about their exposure to risks from natural disasters, with President Biden on Monday signing into law a measure that will...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLUC) - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Debbie Stabenow...

Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) to reduce the spread of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination at commercial airports is headed to the...

Michigan is getting an influx of more than $90 million in federal funds to bolster and expand the state's public health workforce, capacity, and data systems, officials said...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Legislation intended to help protect firefighters from exposure to PFAS chemicals has passed the U.S. House and is on its way to President...

U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on Wednesday introduced Judge Jonathan J.C. Grey to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing considering his nomination to be...

It was familiar turf when U.S. Sen. Gary Peters pitched in at a warehouse in Pontiac prepping Thanksgiving food donations for Oakland County’s main social-service...

MARQUETTE — Michigan Tech University is receiving more than $8 million of federal infrastructure funding to develop technologies and processes to recycle and reuse batteries...

MARQUETTE — Michigan Tech University is receiving more than $8 million of federal infrastructure funding to develop technologies and processes to recycle and reuse batteries...

In conjunction with National Veterans and Military Families Month and the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, Sen. Gary Peters honored local Vietnam veterans Friday by presenting...

A report says the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have failed to track data on domestic terrorism, including White supremacist violence, despite being required by a...

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are failing to adequately monitor domestic extremists, according to a new Senate report that also faulted social media platforms for...

U.S. social media companies are prioritizing making a profit over taking down harmful rhetoric that leads to violent extremists perpetuating the ideology, according to a Senate...

An investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee alleges that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and leading social media companies are not adequately...