Washington — Freshman Sen. Gary Peters made his first major speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, urging the federal government to make significant investments in basic...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a measure to reduce the nearly $1 billion in annual federal vehicle repair costs by encouraging the use of...
LANSING — A federal bill co-sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters could require all schools and districts that receive funding from the federal government to pass policies...
MARQUETTE - The importance of Great Lakes shipping to the Upper Peninsula was the focus of U.S. Sen. Gary Peters' trip to Marquette Monday.
A Democrat from downstate Bloomfield...
WASHINGTON – A proposal by U.S. Sen. Gary Peters would help traumatized veterans maintain their G.I. benefits after being discharged for minor infractions linked to what...
WASHINGTON – Michigan's U.S. senators are pressing the White House to sign off on a report that would look at the economic benefits — and need — for the...
Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan has seen the future, and it is a driverless Uber.
Auto companies are quickly working on equipping cars with software that can connect to each other and...
DETROIT, MI - Several new cars are already equipped with early forms of automated driving, and projects are afoot in Michigan to speed potentially life-saving road-to-car...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan today said he has introduced legislation which could help promote and pay for technology which will someday give drivers and...
WASHINGTON – Michigan's U.S. senators today urged the National Park Service to shorten its timetable for addressing a sharp decline in the wolf population at Isle Royale...
MACKINAC ISLAND — A tax cut for small distilleries might help Michigan grow from the Great Beer State to the Great Alcohol State by lowering costs for new businesses.
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By Brittany Wright
A new proposed law could be a big help to small craft distilleries.
Last week, Senator Gary Peters introduced the distillery excise tax reform.
If passed, it...
Small distillers in northern Michigan would get a big tax break under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).
He visited Traverse City Whiskey...
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (WXYZ) - U.S. Senator Gary Peters says new vehicle-to-vehicle technology could eventually eliminate 80 percent of all car crashes. He spoke to Chuck Stokes...
MACKINAC ISLAND — The 62-year-old pipeline carrying oil through the Straits of Mackinac is getting lots of attention here this week, and one of Michigan's senators says the...
WASHINGTON – Michigan's U.S. senators are proposing legislation which would phase out the use of microbeads — tiny, synthetic beads used in cosmetics and personal...
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters has urged the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency to select Fort Custer as the site of a missile defense system.
Peters, D-Bloomfield Township,...
WASHINGTON – A measure to create a program to train health care workers to recognize victims of human trafficking proposed by U.S. Sen. Gary Peters was included in...
A Wyandot Middle School student asked retired U.S. astronaut Col. Charles Precourt to describe some of the sights he witnessed during his four space shuttle missions.
Precourt told...
WASHINGTON — Agent Orange, an herbicide used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, has been linked to health issues ranging from rashes to heart...