A new program called Michigan Reconnect offers free tuition at community colleges and many job training programs.

With many older residents still unable to get appointments, health officials are wrestling with the ethical gray areas of vaccine distribution.

Calumet was once the center of Michigan’s mining industry. These days, it’s grown into a hotspot for an anti-government movement that’s prompted a mask burning ceremony, an armed demonstration, election conspiracies and a caravan to last month’s Capitol protest.

A Michigan Court of Claims lawsuit seeks to overturn a state order barring high school contact sports through Feb. 21 to slow the spread of COVID-19. The suit claims it’s a double standard to allow collegiate and professional sports, but not high school ones.

The Democratic Secretary of State and a Republican who led a fraud inquiry agree on the need for more training and other reforms, despite vastly different conclusions about the November election.

The state’s computer system Monday was unresponsive for many workers seeking access to the unemployment benefits system. It’s the latest in a series of technology failures impacting workers put out of work by COVID.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says the state is No. 6 in vaccines. Republicans say Michigan is locked down. Neither is quite true, but both sides are finding the best data to suit their arguments.

More than 120,000 essential workers signed up for free community college tuition through the Futures for Frontliners program. The state expects to launch a similar program soon for the roughly 3 million Michigan adults over age 25 who lack a college degree.

The Great Lakes Ice cover is near record lows and expected to remain low through winter. Climatologists say unless society acts now, the warming trend will leave some bays ice-free by midcentury, threatening key ecosystems and the state’s $2.3 billion recreational fishing industry.

Ice cover can change dramatically from one year to the next, but the historical record is clear on warming trends in the Great Lakes. Professor Sapna Sharma of York University in Toronto explains the scientific basis for the dire predictions.

COVID-19 cases are dropping statewide, but at Michigan’s two biggest universities, new coronavirus concerns have led to campus clampdowns on gatherings.

State environmental officials acknowledge public concerns about the proposed tunnel, but said state law limited their nine-month review to a narrow question: Would tunnel construction activities comply with Michigan’s environmental laws? Substantial legal obstacles remain for the company.