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.

Fearing a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a coalition wants to amend the constitution and nullify a 1931 law that could go into effect and make performing an abortion a felony.

Thirteen lawmakers agreed to five-year non-disclosure agreements about a $1 billion development fund, a decision that critics say flies in the face of open government.

Scholarships for aspiring teachers and loan forgiveness for current educators won’t stop Michigan schools from closing now, but it could lessen the state’s teacher shortage long-term, says the state’s top school official

Short supplies nationally and tight eligibility limitations for Paxlovid and molnupiravier will restrict access to the most vulnerable (which includes some unvaccinated patients).

Whitmer has shattered fundraising records by using a 1984 ruling that exempts candidates facing recall from limiting individual contributions.

The decision by the CDC’s vaccine advisory board must get the final okay from CDC’s director, but convincing parents may be a whole other matter.

Michigan campuses had massive COVID outbreaks in the first year of the pandemic, which have been largely sidestepped this year. Officials are trying to be proactive amid the latest surge, with some going remote in January.

Lab experts and doctors — along with the FDA — say omicron appears better than its predecessors at ducking detection.