A company collecting signatures to strip Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of her emergency powers coached paid petition circulators on giving voters false information, illegally collecting signatures without witnessing them, trespassing on private property, and even lying under oath, a secretly recorded videotape shows. Read More
If your downtown is like most, there are some shops you haven’t been able to visit since early spring. The number of businesses that have closed due to the pandemic now totals more than 163,000, according to new data from Yelp. Read More
Some parents and students in the Chippewa Valley School District will be holding a rally Monday in support of in-person learning. Read More
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says her use of emergency powers to manage the pandemic is not unique and she worries that efforts to take away her authority, if successful, could lead coronavirus cases to spike to dangerous levels in Michigan. Read More
The immediate cause of death for a 2-month-old the state's top medical doctor said died because of COVID-19 was a birth defect called gastroschisis, a condition in which a baby is born with intestines located outside the body, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner. Read More
President Donald Trump is calling Michigan's top election official a "Democrat Trump Hater" after the state mistakenly created overseas absentee ballots that didn't list Vice President Mike Pence. Read More
The Michigan secretary of state misprinted the Trump line on ballots intended to be mailed to troops serving overseas, the Detroit News reported. Read More
The public health officer of the Ottawa County Department of Public Health issued a staying in place order to all Grand Valley State University students Wednesday. Read More
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, told a Senate committee Wednesday it would likely be summer or fall of 2021 before most American could be vaccinated for COVID-19 and pushed for the continued use of masks calling them a “powerful public health tool.” Read More
Big Ten football is back. And it didn’t take long for the president to take at least some of the credit. Read More
