Maps were supposed to be completed by Friday by Michigan’s new independent citizen redistricting commission. Supporters say Census delays made that impossible, but critics contend the panel is rife with dysfunction.

Beaumont Health in southeast Michigan on Wednesday became the latest health system to temporarily shut beds because of staffing shortages.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and GOP leaders say they have a deal to keep the lights on in state government for another year.

A Beaumont doctor takes to social media after repeated encounters with patients who were in COVID denial or demanded unproven medications, while refusing vaccines. Compassion fatigue can take a toll.

Macomb County Rep. Steve Marino is stripped of committee assignments and police are investigating threat claims.

After promising five new neighborhoods within its District Detroit and census data showing the surrounding area has lost residents, the Ilitch group unveiled its first renovation of a historic Detroit building since the late 1980s.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District is spending $70 million for COVID testing for students and staff.

Republican majority advanced bills that seek to bar local school mask mandates and allow broad parental waivers. Gov. Whitmer is likely to veto the proposals should they reach her.

Voters Not Politicians, the group that mobilized grassroots volunteers to fight gerrymandering in 2018, is launching a multi-phase campaign to fight restrictive GOP voting rules and is considering a 2022 ballot proposal of its own. The Michigan Democratic Party, meanwhile, has a “team of lawyers” ready to fight the GOP initiative in court.

An investigative report released Monday sheds light on the problems that left the dam vulnerable, from a failure to compact the soil during construction to missing drain tiles that the dam’s owner never addressed.

Vaccine mandates remain deeply divisive. But most workers ultimately got their shots and kept their jobs at Henry Ford.

Roughly 18 months into a deadly pandemic, hospitals across the state face critical frontline staff shortages, notably among nurses. While traveling nurses command top dollar as fill-ins, staff nurses at major health systems confront feelings of grief, rage and burnout.