At 1 a.m. Thursday morning, Symone Wilkes, a Detroit resident and mother of two young sons, received a loud alert on her phone. It was her MI Bridges app — the site through which state benefits are provided — alerting her that her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,

The state's Democratic members of the U.S. House want contingency funds to be used to keep food assistance benefits flowing.

The state is warning the 1.4 million people who receive SNAP benefits that there will be no funds next month. It's due to the federal government shutdown.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 22 other state attorneys general in sending a letter on Friday to Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pressing for answers on the lapse in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,

More than 1.4 million Michiganders could lose access to food assistance next week as the federal government shutdown forces a pause in SNAP benefits.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has instructed Michigan to pause the distribution of SNAP benefit coupons for November amid the ongoing government shutdown. SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,

Double Up Food Bucks program, a program that matches produce purchases up to $20 a day, is lifting that cap amid the looming pause in SNAP benefits.

Michigan’s football team maintained its grasp of the in-state rivalry on Saturday, beating Michigan State 31-20 in East Lansing. It wasn’t one of the 25th-ranked Wolverines’ tidiest performances of the season,