With Michigan’s snow shoveling season upon us, the Michigan Primary Care Consortium is offering guidelines to avoid personal injury or a serious health care consequence. Of special concerns are individuals facing chronic back challenges, heart disease, high blood pressure and cholesterol, ...

It pleased us to read News staff writer Steve Schulwitz’s recent interview with Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist in which Gilchrist assured Schulwitz and his readers that Northeast Michigan had Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s support. “The area is very important to us,” the lieutenant governor told ...

Michigan had 220,526 winter-related crashes between 2015 and 2019, including 3,101 that involved fatal and serious injuries. And so many of them could have been avoided if drivers had just slowed down, according to the Michigan State Police. Most winter driving crashes are caused by drivers ...

This week’s bouquets go to: From the family of Bob Holmberg , Iron River: My son was traveling from Iron River to Escanaba recently. Somewhere around Helps, he ended up with a flat tire (my son has some health issues). He stopped his truck to get out to look to see what the situation was ...

Sometimes, it takes intestinal fortitude to run a public meeting, especially if the proceeding pertains to politics or the pandemic. In recent years, we’ve seen public meetings in this state spinning out of control when citizens, whether well-intentioned or not, commandeer these sessions, ...

Democrats want to force workers to pay union dues against their will once again as they make repealing Michigan’s right-to-work law one of their first legislative targets when they take full control of Lansing in January. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has said she will work to pull back the ...