One week after Trump had praised the “blockbuster” case, a Michigan judge on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit over Antrim County election results, ruling a request for an independent audit was “moot.”

If current vaccination rates continue, Michigan wouldn’t fully reopen for months under the governor’s current plan, endangering the summer tourist season. To business leaders, that’s untenable now that the mask mandate has ended for the vaccinated.

Federal guidance late last week that gave vaccinated people more freedom to go maskless left the state and private businesses scrambling to update their own rules.

A Bad Axe man rose in the ranks at The Base and claimed he was buying property to hasten a race war, according to the FBI.

A data-based study makes a case for major policy reform to address the widening gap between white people and African-American and Latino residents in Detroit.

Only a few small communities in the Great Lakes Basin have sought water diversions. But with climate change, some fear that increasingly parched swaths of the U.S. will seek access to the fresh water that surrounds us.

Within the past two weeks, a nonprofit set up for Gretchen Whitmer’s inauguration footed the bill for the $27,000 flight to Florida amid the pandemic. The disclosure is unlikely to quell the issue.

For now anyway, many stores are still going to require masks, as are courts. But changes could be coming quickly after Michigan changed rules ending mask requirements for the fully vaccinated.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is ending a mandate that likely would have been in place through summer. But policing who has a vaccine and who doesn’t will likely prove impossible.

State game areas — hunting lands typically open to target shooting — have become increasingly popular with handgun and AR-15 enthusiasts. But the noise, trash and wayward bullets worry neighbors, hikers and others.

Other states are getting creative in efforts to get shots into the arms of the vaccine-hesitant. Michigan hasn’t done that so far, prompting debate about whether the state should do more to move the needle.

In a major step on the road toward normalcy, the CDC announced fully vaccinated Americans need no longer mask or socially distance in most settings. The move poses hard questions for Michigan schools and businesses.