After promising five new neighborhoods within its District Detroit and census data showing the surrounding area has lost residents, the Ilitch group unveiled its first renovation of a historic Detroit building since the late 1980s.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District is spending $70 million for COVID testing for students and staff.

Republican majority advanced bills that seek to bar local school mask mandates and allow broad parental waivers. Gov. Whitmer is likely to veto the proposals should they reach her.

Voters Not Politicians, the group that mobilized grassroots volunteers to fight gerrymandering in 2018, is launching a multi-phase campaign to fight restrictive GOP voting rules and is considering a 2022 ballot proposal of its own. The Michigan Democratic Party, meanwhile, has a “team of lawyers” ready to fight the GOP initiative in court.

An investigative report released Monday sheds light on the problems that left the dam vulnerable, from a failure to compact the soil during construction to missing drain tiles that the dam’s owner never addressed.

Vaccine mandates remain deeply divisive. But most workers ultimately got their shots and kept their jobs at Henry Ford.

Roughly 18 months into a deadly pandemic, hospitals across the state face critical frontline staff shortages, notably among nurses. While traveling nurses command top dollar as fill-ins, staff nurses at major health systems confront feelings of grief, rage and burnout.

Bridge Michigan invested in the next generation of Michigan journalists this summer. That investment paid off big-time.

COVID testing supplies already face supply chain challenges in Michigan. Some labs say the rise in delta variant cases combined with new testing mandates for people who reject vaccines may lead to critical delays.

Hospitals lauded federal vaccine requirements that cover virtually all Michigan healthcare workers as a win for patient safety. But workers’ unions warned the regulations could force a worker exodus from an already short-staffed industry.

Is this legal? How will it be enforced? The federal rule isn’t yet written, but here’s what we know about the test and vaccination requirement for employers with more than 100 workers.

Michigan is flush with federal stimulus cash, but annual budget talks are headed to the wire. One potential sticking point: Higher education spending, because of university mask mandates.