New York held a ticker-tape parade Wednesday for the health care workers and others who helped the city pull through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri struggled to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta variant and deep resistance to getting ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday called for allotting $150 million in federal coronavirus rescue funds for Michigan’s local parks and trails, the second time she has proposed major recreation spending in less than a month. If approved by lawmakers, the proposal would ...

State data Tuesday indicated two new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County, while neighboring Menominee County had three more cases reported along with a new coronavirus-related death. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website since the last update ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — In a normal, pre-COVID-19 summer, scores of pleasure boats are anchored in Lake Champlain off the Burlington waterfront by July 4, with most of them from Canada. But the anchorage is nearly empty this year because of the ongoing border closure. People who rely on ...

State data Friday showed only two more confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula for the day, in Marquette and Chippewa counties, along with a new virus-related death in Marquette County. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website also reduced ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bipartisan proposal in the U.S. House would ban the farming of mink fur in the United States in an effort to stem possible mutations of the coronavirus, something researchers have said can be accelerated when the virus spreads among animals. The bill introduced this ...