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This article reviews the top news stories, sports stories, and cultural events occurring during the year 2025 in Michigan.

The top news stories in Michigan included: the September 2025 Grand Blanc church attack; the impact of tariffs in the second Trump administration on the automobile industry and Michigan economy; the 2025 Traverse City stabbing attack; criminal charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in connection with the Flint water crisis; the dismissal of criminal charges against 15 Republican officials in the Michigan prosecution of fake electors; the trial of police officer Christopher Schurr in connection with the 2022 Killing of Patrick Lyoya; and the November 4 election of Mary Sheffield as the first woman to serve as Mayor of Detroit.

The top sports stories in Michigan during 2025 included: the Western Michigan men's ice hockey team winning the NCAA Frozen Four; the Detroit Tigers' advance to the playoffs; the 2025 Michigan baseball team's advance to the 2025 College World Series and coming within one game of the national championship; and a Division II national championship for the Grand Valley State women's basketball team.

Notable cultural events in Michigan during 2025 included the induction of The White Stripes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the release of the documentary film Stans focusing on Eminem and his fans.

Notable Michigan-related deaths in 2025 included former members of Congress Lucien Nedzi and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick; Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell; former Detroit Red Wings players Ted Lindsay and Alex Delvecchio; and former Detroit Tigers players Chet Lemon and Joe Coleman.

Incumbents

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Gretchen Whitmer

State government

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Mayors of major cities

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Mike Duggan

Federal office holders

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Elissa Slotkin
Gary Peters

Sports

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Baseball

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Tarik Skubal

American football

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Basketball

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Ice hockey

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Chronology of events

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January

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  • January 2 - Seven Detroit Lions players (Jared Goff, Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Penei Sewell, Frank Ragnow, Brian Branch, and Jack Fox) were named to the Pro Bowl roster.[4]
  • January 3 - Final crime statistics for 2024 were released. Detroit reported 203 homicides, its lowest rate in more than 50 years.[5]
  • January 7 - Baker College of Owosso was fined $2.5 million by the US Department of Education for misrepresenting career outomes.[6]
  • January 13 - Lawyers for James and Jennifer Crumbley (parents and defendants in the Oxford High School shooting) filed documents with the court showing that the Oakland County Prosecutor's office paid two public relations firms at least $100,000 to run a "smear campaign" against them and signed a secret deal with ABC despite a court gag order.[7]
  • January 14 - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced new indictments against former Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others for their actions and neglect in connection with the Flint water crisis. The charges included obstruction of justice, extortion, and involuntary manslaughter.[8]
  • January 18 - The Detroit Lions lost to the Washington Commanders in the divisional wild card game.
  • January 21 - Three Michiganders, Justin Jersey, Logan Barnhart and Matthew Krol, were among the individuals pardoned by Donald Trump for their role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. They were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, attacks on police officers.[9]
  • January 24 - Leaders of the Big Three automakers met with Donald Trump, defending their use of plants in Mexico.
  • January 24 - Donald Trump pardoned four anti-abortion protesters who were convicted for preventing a woman whose health was a risk from entering a Sterling Heights clinic in 2000.
  • January 26 - Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced that Detroit would cooperate with Trump's immigration enforcment and was not a sanctuary city.
  • January 28 - General Motors announced record profit-sharing payouts to 45,000 hourly workers in the US.[10]

February

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  • February 4 - General Motors discontinued its Cruise autonomous vehicle business. GM had spent billions on the business.[11]
  • February 23 - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met with Pres. Donald Trump at the White House discuss impact of tariffs on automobile industry and proposal to close Selfridge Air National Guard Base.

March

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  • March 17 - Michigan won the Big 10 men's basketball tournament.
  • March 20 - Former Michigan offensive coordinator Matt Weiss indicted on computer hacking charges.
  • March 22 – Grand Valley State University defeats Cal State Dominguez Hills, 70–58, to win the 2025 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament, earning its second title.[12]
  • March 24 - The bodies of two children were discovered in a freezer during an eviction at the Martin Luther King Apartment in Detroit.
  • March 27 - The University of Michigan announced the closure of its DEI office amid pressure from President Trump.
  • March 27 - UAW President Shawn Fain announced the union's approval of tariffs on foreign vehicles.

April

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May

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  • May 1 - General Motors updated its forecast, taking a $5 billion hit for the anticipated impact of tariffs. Four days later, Ford projected a $1.5 billion hit due to tariffs.
  • May 4 - Santa Ono resigned as president of the University of Michigan.
  • May 8 – The murder trial of former Grand Rapids Police Officer Christopher Schurr in connection with the 2022 Killing of Patrick Lyoya resulted in a hung jury. The judge declared a mistrial. (Schurr shot Lyoya, a 26-year-old African immigrant, in the back of his head during a scuffle following a traffic stop.)[14] On May 22, the prosecutor announced he would not retry Schurr.[15]
  • May 10 - The Detroit Opera's production of "The Central Park Five" debuted at the Detroit Opera House.[16]

June

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  • June - Antonio Filosa selected as new CEO of Stellantis.
  • June 16 - The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press announced that their joint operating agreement would end at the end of 2025.
  • June 22 – A man with a rifle and handgun opens fire outside a church in Wayne, hitting one person in the leg. A church parishioner strikes the gunman with a truck before he is shot and killed by two security guards.[17]
  • June 27 - Ted Nugent brought a prohibited gun into the Michigan Capitol as he testified before the natural resources and tourism committee.
  • June 30 – Siena Heights University in Adrian announced that, due to rising costs and increased competition for students, it would close at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. The school was founded in 1919.[18]

July

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August

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  • August 12 – A pickup truck ran a stop sign and crashed into a van in a rural area of Gilford Township, located east of Saginaw. The van was carrying 10 members of a local Amish community. Multiple occupants of the van were ejected from the vehicle, and six were killed. No charges were immediately filed against the driver of the pickup truck, though the matter remained under investigation.[21]
  • August 15 - The NCAA issued sanctions against the University of Michigan football program in connection with the University of Michigan football sign-stealing scandal. The monetary element of the sanctions were later estimated at $35 million.[22]
  • August 26 – Governor Whitmer signs House Bills 4047 and 4048 into law, making it illegal to produce deepfake pornography without consent from the person or people depicted.[23]

September

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  • September 8 – U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Hamtramck ordinance that prohibited LGBTQ+ pride flags from being hung on publicly owned flagpoles. The ordinance was enacted by an all-Muslim city council after a pride flag was flown from city flagpoles in 2021 and 2022. Under the ordinance, only five specified flags, including the American and Michigan flags, were permitted. The judge ruled that the ban did not violate the First Amendment, because it banned all private flags not just some.[24]
  • September 9 - Ingham County Judge Kristen Simmons dismissed criminal charges brought by the Michigan Attorney General against 15 individuals in the Michigan prosecution of fake electors. In December 2020, the defendants signed certificates claiming they were Michigan's duly-elected electors and that Trump won Michigan's electoral votes in the 2020 Presidential election. Judge Simmons found insufficient evidence of the requisite fraudulent intent.[25] In November 2025, President Trump preemptively pardoned Michigan's so-called fake electors.[26]
Ford "Glass House"
  • September 15 - Ford announced that it would move its world headquarters from the iconic Glass House (pictured at right) to a new innovation hub near the Henry Ford Museum.[27]
  • September 28 – Five persons were killed in the Grand Blanc church attack, a mass shooting and arson at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints meeting house in Grand Blanc Township. The gunman, an Iraq war veteran, rammed his pickup truck into the meeting house, then exited the vehicle and opened fire with an assault rifle and set the building on fire. Four church members were killed, and the gunman was killed by police.[28][29] The assailant had reportedly asserted that Mormons were "the anti-christ."[30]

October

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  • October 29 - Due to weak demand following the termination of federal subsidies on electric vehicles, General Motors announed layoffs of 3,400 workers at electric vehicle and EV battery plants in Michigan (including Factory Zero) and Ohio.[37]
  • November 6 - A battery manufacturer announced the closure of plants in Midland and Auburn Hills.[38]
  • November 9 - Ford exended layoffs at its Dearborn Rouge complex and the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center where the Ford F-150 Lightning is assembled.
  • October 31 - Two Dearborn residents were arrested in an FBI raid relating to an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to launch a terrorist attack or attacks. In the following days, four others were arrested for their alleged roles in the plots. According to some reports, the target of the attack was the U.S. Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal.[39] Other reports indicated that the men intended to attack gay bars in Dearborn.[40]

November

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Mary Sheffield

December

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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