On Saturday, a new federal policy allows consumers to purchase up to eight at-home tests a month with insurance. It’s intended to make at-home testing cheaper, but there is some devil in the details.

‘This is a very dangerous time,’ as models forecast as many as 8,000 patients by the end of January.

“You can’t believe everything you read in a newspaper,” pastor Rusty Chatfield told congregants at his northern Michigan church, two days after Bridge Michigan published a report in which Lee Chatfield was accused of sexually assaulting a teen at the affiliated Christian school.

Soon, the applications will be ready, and businesses or property owners can start to apply for the money. State leaders say it’s a way to lure ‘transformational projects’ to the state.

Keeping students in classrooms amid a volatile pandemic remains an all-consuming topic for school leaders. Children are suffering from years of disruption as districts weigh how to spend billions in additional federal dollars.

Students, teachers and staffers could return to school in five days rather than 10 under most circumstances.

Parents in the Detroit Public Schools Community District have until Jan. 31 to turn in COVID testing consent forms if they want their children to learn in person.

A new analysis confirmed what had been feared: Online learning wasn’t as effective as in-person during the COVID-interrupted 2020-21 school year, and academic gaps between racial groups grew.

House leadership Saturday ordered lawmakers and staff to preserve records on the former speaker, who faces sexual assault allegations. The order was spurred by allegations in a Bridge Michigan article Friday, which includes lengthy interviews with his accuser.

She said Chatfield groomed and then assaulted her when she was a 15- or 16-year-old student at a Chatfield family-run Christian school in northern Michigan where he taught. She said the assaults continued for years before she filed a police report in December.

As the virus races through Michigan, the state’s restaurants are struggling — yet again. This time, survival may be at stake.

The areas are struggling economically because of population losses and other issues. State officials hope a new office of rural development will stem the decline.