WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Taboniar went 15 months without a paycheck, thanks to the COVID pandemic. A housekeeper at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in Honolulu, the single mother of two saw her income completely vanish as the virus devastated the hospitality industry. For more than a year, ...

State data Friday showed 159 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula in the past two days — including 14 in Iron County — as the level of COVID-19 activity in the region continues to rise. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s $100 reward program for those receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will be extended two weeks until Sept. 19, Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday. Also, the state’s second-highest ranking health official who has been the public face for fighting the pandemic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19, warning it can cause harmful side effects and that there’s little evidence it helps. With a fourth wave of infections, more Americans are ...

Local health officials Thursday afternoon reported 31 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Iron County in the past week, while Dickinson County added 14 more cases. In addition to the new confirmed positives, the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department in its Facebook post listed 50 new ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A second Republican lawmaker says he doesn’t support suing the University of Wisconsin System over its COVID-19 protocols, deepening an intra-party squabble over whether the Legislature should take control of the system’s mitigation policies. Sen. Steve Nass, ...