By DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE Associated Press LANSING — Major health care providers in southeastern Michigan reported significant reductions in COVID-19 patients Thursday, while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she would work with Midwestern states on a strategy to reopen their virus-stunted ...
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and ED WHITE Associated Press LANSING — Hundreds of flag-waving, honking protesters drove past the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to show their displeasure with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the coronavirus ...
DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit has agreed to drop a misdemeanor ticket against a man who was accused of violating Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-home order while protesting outside an abortion clinic. Detroit and the governor agree that Andrew Belanger’s conduct was not illegal, ...
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT — Barely surviving the 2008 economic meltdown and humbled by its 2013 bankruptcy, Detroit’s fiscal future now faces another daunting foe in the coronavirus. The state-forced shutdown of its three casinos, auto plants and other businesses to slow ...
By COREY WILLIAMS, DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT — The city of Detroit will begin some layoffs, cut back hours to other employees and reduce services to meet a projected $44 million deficit due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Mike Duggan laid out the plan Tuesday ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to toughen rather than relax what already was one of the nation’s strictest stay-home orders in response to the coronavirus is hitting opposition in her home state, where Republicans who backed her ...
LANSING — The state of Michigan will offer cash-strapped bars and restaurants relief by buying back their liquor inventory during the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an order authorizing the program in a flurry of moves late Monday. She also delayed the expiration of ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING— The growth in coronavirus infections in Michigan is starting to flatten due to the extraordinary restrictions on people’s movements, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday. But she warned that this doesn’t mean business as usual will resume ...
LANSING (AP) — A panel studying ways to secure energy for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is developing recommendations on propane supplies. The U.P. Energy Task Force will meet today by video conference to wrap up the list, which must be submitted to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer by Friday. More than ...
LANSING (AP) — A Lansing-area food bank has postponed opening 19 community gardens because of concerns that residents using them or sharing gardening tools could spread or contract the coronavirus. The Greater Lansing Food Bank mission for the Garden Project provides home and community ...
By JENNIFER TIMAR Livingston Daily BRIGHTON (AP) — Husband and wife Brighton bakery owners Keri and Greg Hayes were handed a big disappointment in March when the Home Shopping Network canceled taping shows due to the coronavirus. “We got bumped,” Keri Hayes, who co-owns Whey Better ...
By BRANDEN HUNTER Detroit Free Press DETROIT (AP) — It’s been said that if you want to find happiness, you just have to look around you. Well, residents of North Rosedale Park on Detroit’s west side are discovering that the seemingly Pollyannaish mantra is actually true, at least in ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan public health officials reported a big drop in the daily number of COVID-19 cases on Sunday but cautioned against drawing wider conclusions as fewer tests are conducted on weekends. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 645 new cases ...
By DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE Associated Press LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday extended Michigan’s stay-at-home order through April, saying it must continue longer to combat the coronavirus pandemic that has sickened more than 21,000 people and contributed to nearly 1,100 ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Additional funds provided by Congress for Great Lakes environmental improvements will be used to hasten cleanups of highly toxic sites and step up work on other longstanding forms of pollution, federal officials said Thursday. Lawmakers last fall put $320 million ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Nearly 385,000 people filed initial claims for unemployment in Michigan last week amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, marking a third straight week of historically high claims. More than 817,000 sought jobless benefits over ...
MICHIGAN (AP) — The federal government will buy 30,000 ventilators from General Motors by the end of August for $489.4 million. GM says it will cover its costs but won't make a profit on the devices, which will cost the Department of Health and Human Services just over $16,300 each. That ...
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY— Enbridge Inc. applied Wednesday for state and federal authorization to construct an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Michigan waterway that connects two of the Great Lakes. The Canadian company wants to build a roughly 4-mile-long ...
BELLAIRE (AP) — Northern Michigan set up roadside pantries in efforts to help neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic, including stocking Little Free Libraries with food and supplies instead of books. The roadside pantry idea was inspired from a similar effort by an Indiana man who wanted ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT — The mayor of Detroit said Wednesday that the coronavirus is “starting to weaken” in Michigan’s largest city, but he also pleaded with residents to keep the momentum going by wearing masks and avoiding large groups. Health officials, meanwhile, ...