PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — With COVID-19 case numbers plummeting, Emily Safrin did something she hadn’t done since the pandemic began two years ago: She put her fears aside and went to a concert. The fully vaccinated and boosted restaurant server planned to keep her mask on, but as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program to catapult the U.S. economy into a quick recovery from the coronavirus pandemic by helping small businesses stay open and their employees working. President Joe Biden tweaked it to try to direct more of the ...

Qualifying Upper Peninsula businesses with financial hardship from COVID-19 are encouraged to apply for Michigan’s new Afflicted Business Relief grant program. A total of $409 million is available from the American Rescue Plan Act. The nine eligible business categories include entertainment ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are extending the requirement for masks on planes and public transportation for one more month — through mid-April — while taking steps that could lead to lifting the rule. The mask mandate was scheduled to expire March 18, but the Transportation ...

State data Wednesday indicates the pace of area COVID-19 activity has slowed to a crawl, with only two new confirmed positives in Dickinson County and none in Iron County since Monday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday added 39 more confirmed ...

GENEVA (AP) —An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine amid the global spread of omicron, capping a reversal of the U.N. agency’s repeated insistence last year that boosters ...