Coronavirus Michigan

Michigan is one of just four states with ‘moderate’ levels of COVID-19 detected in wastewater, while many states are seeing ‘high’ or ‘very high’ levels of infection. Case counts in the state are still rising, but more slowly.

Experts have warned that the pandemic’s effect on learning would last for a long time. Now, Michigan scores show third graders are scoring worse on reading than third graders prior to the pandemic.

Moderna and Pfizer are releasing updated vaccines to protect against the KP.2 variant of the omicron COVID-19 virus.

Office of Civil Rights says Michigan Department of Education is "brushing aside" its violation of federal protections for students with disabilities.

COVID appears on a steady increase again, but health officials stopped collecting data as it grew increasingly imprecise.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s memoir is scheduled for release in early July.

New research finds Michigan students have been slower to recover from pandemic learning losses than peers in most other states.

One of Michigan’s largest school districts plans to cut 94 teachers, dozens of other staffers as a "COVID cliff" looms across the state.

Pot use for students isn’t new. But Michigan school leaders say they worry about students using vapes or marijuana edibles.

Weekly COVID updates end after four years and 600 posts. A new tracker will provide updates on what are expected to be some of nation’s most competitive campaigns.

This tracker recorded Michigan's COVID-19 case numbers, positivity rate, county infection rates, and weekly cases along with maps and daily state curve data.

Michigan paid out billions in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic. That 'era' is over, the agency’s new director said Thursday.

Michigan’s state government watchdog is facing a potential $8.3 million cut under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed budget. The auditor general wants to know why.

Michigan schools may have to lay off or otherwise 'lose”'more than 5,000 teachers to balance budgets as federal pandemic funding expires amid continued enrollment declines, according to a new analysis.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will detail her rise in Democratic politics in a new book releasing July 9. In the meantime, read these other five Michigan political memoirs and biographies.

As federal relief funding runs dry, a “COVID cliff” is looming for Michigan schools. Ann Arbor appears to have hit it early.

Some Democrats want to mandate stores take bottles and cans during normal business hours. Foes say requiring the handling of ‘stinky, wet, gross cans’ is unfair.

The new guidelines align COVID with other respiratory infections: Stay home if you have a fever and feel sick; return from isolation after 24 fever-free hours.

For more than a year, Ottawa County Health Officer Adeline Hambley and county commissioners — led by Ottawa Impact — have been locked in a legal battle that began with COVID-era mask mandates.

For the first time in years, the number of recent high school graduates in Michigan has increased. Statewide, 38.2% of last year’s graduates enrolled in four-year colleges, while more than half are in some higher education.