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.

More than 6,000 businesses employing about half of the state’s workers are likely affected by the president's rule requiring vaccines or weekly tests for companies with more than 100 workers.

The southeast Michigan city has been under a state of emergency while investigators try to understand the circumstances and lapses that led to the spill, and assess any lingering health risks from the chemicals entering Flat Rock’s sewer system.

Michigan hospitalizations for COVID are nowhere near levels of the spring surge, but so many staffers are leaving health systems that there is not the personnel to care for many new patients, the vast majority of whom are unvaccinated.

You failed,’ a lawmaker tells the acting director of the Unemployment Insurance Agency, which has had a host of problems during the pandemic.