Despite middling vaccination rates, Michigan’s case rates are nowhere near as bad as much of the nation and seem to have plateaued.

Bridge’s Ted Roelofs and BridgeDetroit’s Stephen Henderson will be featured in a forum from a journalism cooperative that focuses on elder care.

African-American and low-income third-graders were far more likely to be flagged for possible retention due to low reading test scores than their white or non-poor classmates. How many students are actually being held back remains unclear.

On Sept. 29, Bridge Michigan will host our monthly Lunch Break series with members of the Bridge team in honor of our 10th birthday. Participants will include President and CEO John Bebow and founder and chairman Phil Power, and the event will be moderated by BridgeDetroit Executive Editor Stephen Henderson. Please join us!

Agencies say communities are welcoming refugees, but warn that it could be a struggle for many of them.

The percentage of minority residents has grown in almost all Michigan cities. That’s prompting hope in segregated regions like metro Detroit, but some worry old patterns will repeat.

Taylor held a parade Thursday for its team, which won the Little League World Series, and found pride in its own generational love for the game.

The state’s advice on when to reconfigure districts could put Michigan’s counties in legal jeopardy, clerks fear.

A Texas abortion case is testing the landmark Supreme Court ruling. If the law is overturned, a 1846 law criminalizing abortion in Michigan could become operational again.

Eight of the nine most populous counties in the state now have orders requiring face masks in school buildings.

Jon Campbell of Detroit was flipping burgers at 15. Now, the 52-year-old McDonald’s franchisee and father of three will use the lure of the Golden Arches to meet another goal — boosting vaccines in a neighborhood where rates are low and hesitation high.

Once thought too cold for cyanobacteria to grow, Lake Superior in recent years has joined the other Great Lakes as a breeding ground for potentially-toxic algae as a changing climate warms its waters.