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Saturday, May 10, 2025
LANSING, MICH. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the Protect Michigan Commission announce details for a new program to help enhance the state’s vaccine equity strategy. Michigan providers that are federally enrolled to administer COVID-19 vaccines are encouraged to apply by Monday, March 1 if they […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Saturday declaring a Michigan state of energy emergency to ensure adequate propane distribution over the coming days. The order temporarily suspends restrictions on commercial driver hours to allow the immediate delivery of energy to homes and businesses, Whitmer’s office said. It exempts motor […]
Former House Speaker Lee Chatfield this morning resigned his post as CEO of Southwest Michigan First after less than two weeks on the job, citing the uproar in the community caused by his positions while in office regarding the expansion of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include gender identity […]
(The Center Square) – On Tuesday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the integrity of Michigan’s 2020 general election. Both sides are claiming victory. In June 2020, conservative activist Anthony Daunt sued Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Director of Elections Jonathan Brater, alleging inadequate […]
ST. IGNACE, MI – An Ohio man accused of illegally climbing the Mackinac Bridge in November has been charged in Michigan. Issac Kendall Wright, 25, of Cincinnati was arraigned in the 89th District Court of Cheboygan County on Thursday on a charge of felony trespass upon a key transportation facility. […]
Of the 3,211 inmates held some version of solitary confinement within a Department of Corrections prison, nearly half – 47 percent – have been there for more than two years, said a report released Tuesday from the group Citizens for Prison Reform, though the agency disputes data in the report. […]
Governor Gretchen Whitmer goes on the record saying she wished she could have arrested former President Donald Trump. In a recent interview with the magazine “Hour Detroit,” Gov. Whitmer laughed boisterously at the prospect of having arrest President Trump when his campaign rallies allegedly violated her coronavirus orders. The governor […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — There’s a civil war inside the Michigan Republican Party. Laura Cox had planned to step down as chairwoman Saturday but now wants to keep the job a little longer while she accuses a possible successor of misconduct when he led the party in 2018. Cox said […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will announce today that the state is allowing contact sports to resume, with some safeguards, following one of the more intense waves of opposition her administration has seen in response to its efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, EUP News has learned. Contact sports have […]
The authority tasked with overseeing design and construction specifications of Enbridge Energy Company’s Line 5 tunnel were chided repeatedly by various groups, including Tribal communities, over its approval of various joint design specifications as the group met Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year. The Mackinac Straits Corridor […]