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LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The United States Postal Service (USPS) said they will invest in charging infrastructure and deploy over 66,000 electric vehicles by 2028 in an announcement...

Upper Peninsula, Mich. (WLUC) - On Tuesday, the Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA) and Senator Gary Peters announced significant funding for communities affected by climate...

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) is touting the $360 million reauthorization of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP), which...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, and Gary Peters, D-MI announced the Senate Passage of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act Thursday, according to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters’ (D-MI) bipartisan legislation to establish a National Integrated Flood Information System is headed to the president...

The flurry of cybersecurity legislation enacted by the current Congress left one unfinished piece of business that Sen. Gary Peters says will be first in line in the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLNS) – A bipartisan bill coauthored by Michigan Senator Gary Peters aims to strengthen federal efforts to combat human trafficking. This bill pledges more...

The Army Corps of Engineers, seeking a much-larger funding authorization to complete its work on a new supersize navigational lock in northern Michigan, got its wish as the U.S....

Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy has finalized a $2.5 billion loan to Ultium Cells LLC, the EV battery joint venture between General Motors Co. and South...

Following a two-year investigation by U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, a new report detailed significant...

YPSILANTI, MI -- Veterans from across the state have been coming together to share and document their firsthand accounts from their time in the U.S. military. The Office of U.S....

The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to override an existing law and update requirements for government agencies to write communications...

From the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak in China to the first surge of infections around the U.S. in 2020, a new report penned by Senate Democrats, released...

Washington — The defense policy bill approved Thursday by the House includes new spending authorization for the ongoing project to build a new Soo Lock at $3.2 billion,...

WASHINGTON — Many of the deaths and much of the economic damage from the Covid pandemic could have been prevented, particularly in the early months of the...

Former President Donald Trump's administration failed to heed critical early warnings about the severity of the virus and provided poor leadership as it strove to "avoid bad news,"...

The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to override an existing law and update requirements for government agencies to write communications...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WLNS) — A two-year-long investigation’s findings declared big failures in the federal government’s response to COVID-19. U.S. Senator Gary Peters...

WASHINGTON — A new examination by Senate Democrats of how the federal government bungled its early response to the coronavirus pandemic faults President Donald J. Trump and...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A piece of bipartisan legislation to crack down on potential PFAS exposure from commercial airports will head to President Joe Biden’s...