MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System officials said Wednesday they plan to end their campus mask mandates by spring break. UW System President Tommy Thompson announced that widespread vaccinations and waning case numbers on system campuses and across the state justify the ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday approved spending $1.2 billion in federal aid to fight COVID-19, including for understaffed health care providers to recruit and retain workers with bonuses. The new law allots $300 million for hospitals and nursing homes to award the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate passed a package of bills Tuesday that push back against COVID-19 vaccine requirements and aim to shield workers who do not want to protect themselves from the virus by being inoculated. Senators approved the bills in the wake ...

State data Monday showed Iron County had two more deaths blamed on COVID-19 but only eight new confirmed cases of the virus in the past three days. Dickinson County added 18 confirmed COVID-19 positives since Friday, according to figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services ...

State data Friday showed Dickinson County added 21 confirmed COVID-19 positives and Iron County only nine new cases in the past two days, continuing the slowdown in coronavirus activity in both counties. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday ...

Local data Thursday showed in the past week Dickinson County had 111 new COVID-19 positives and another death attributed to the virus, while Iron County had 46 new cases and two more deaths. But the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department numbers released Thursday morning do indicate the ...