KINGSFORD — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services notified the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department that the MDHHS Bureau of Laboratories identified the COVID-19 omicron variant within the district, health officials said Tuesday. The Dickinson-Iron District Health ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online. The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to access an order form run ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House of Representatives has canceled voting for the week because lawmakers and staff have COVID-19, are close contacts or are awaiting test results. The chamber typically holds session on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. House Speaker Jason Wentworth did ...

State data Friday showed 97 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and 20 in Iron County since Wednesday, as the Upper Peninsula topped 1,000 new cases for the two-day period. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated ...

LANSING, Mich. — An Upper Peninsula lawmaker says more investigation is needed into the estimated $8.5 billion in fraudulent jobless benefits paid by Michigan over a 19-month period of the coronavirus pandemic. State Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Waucedah Township, who chairs the Senate Oversight ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing ...