The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling disruptive outbreaks in the North, a worrisome sign of what could be ahead this winter in the U.S. While trends are improving in Florida, Texas and other Southern states that bore the worst ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration’s requirement that many private-sector workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or, if their employers allow it, get tested weekly also applies to many of the roughly 586,000 government employees in Michigan. That is because Michigan is ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A major health care provider in northern Michigan said it is putting an emphasis on COVID-19 care and reducing other services after a spike in the region. Munson Healthcare, based in Traverse City, said it moved its pandemic response to a “red” stage in the ...

State data Monday showed 22 more confirmed COVID-19 positives in Iron County since Friday, along with another death blamed on the virus. It was twice the 11 new coronavirus cases recorded for Dickinson County in the past three days, according to figures on the Michigan Department of Health ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pushing forward with a massive plan to require millions of private sector employees to get vaccinated by early next year. But first, he has to make sure workers in his own federal government get the shot. About 4 million federal workers are to be ...

State data Friday showed 15 more confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and eight in Iron County since Wednesday. Across the border, Wisconsin data listed 66 new confirmed coronavirus cases in Marinette County in a single day, capping a week that saw the county record 228 more ...