LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday proposed spending $75 million in federal pandemic rescue funding to reduce violent crime, calling it a critical issue that must be addressed amid double-digit percentage increases in several Michigan cities. The framework, if enacted by ...

Bay College will require face masks be worn while indoors on campus, starting Monday, college officials announced Friday. Masks will be needed regardless of whether the person has been vaccinated, “as the campus community has a mixed population regarding vaccination status,” according to ...

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) — Several tribes in Wisconsin are urging people to get a coronavirus test if they attended an American Indian event last weekend in Forest County. The Potawatomi said at least two people who contracted COVID-19 attended the annual Meno Keno Ma Ge Wen Powwow in Carter on ...

Local health officials Thursday posted six new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and two in Iron County in the past week. In addition to the new confirmed positives, the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department in its Facebook post Thursday morning listed 17 new probable cases ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the pace of vaccinations in the U.S. first began to slow, President Joe Biden backed incentives like million-dollar cash lotteries if that’s what it took to get shots in arms. But as new coronavirus infections soar, he’s testing a tougher approach. In just the past ...

State data Wednesday showed COVID-19 activity continues to climb in the Upper Peninsula with 59 new confirmed positives in the past two days, though roughly half of those new cases came in Delta and Menominee counties. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website ...