The new no-cellphone policy across all schools means “I’m not being bothered,” Lake High School Ryleigh Foster said. “The detachment, it feels good.”

Investigators in Michigan and elsewhere find low-level contamination of “forever chemicals” virtually everywhere, but the state says it can’t always afford to figure out exactly how the chemicals get into the environment.

Calling themselves the Rural Health Group, the four friends started interviewing emergency medical service agencies and plan to develop a guidebook detailing available resources, including ones that provide non-emergency medical transportation.

A township board in northern Michigan has begun the process of eliminating zoning rules. That would allow a township trustee to build a lucrative gravel mine on his property.

The decision comes after years of outcry from some farmers that the cost of labor, transportation and housing for H-2A workers was making it impossible to break even.

An MSU study released earlier this month found a lack of access to child care costs the state’s economy $2.9 billion in lost productivity as parents are forced to stay home from work to care for their children.

With little pine left to harvest, foresters and sawmills worry what the next several years will look like until newly planted trees can replace what the ice storm took away.

Understaffed, untrained, and sometimes even married townships officials control taxpayer dollars in many northern Michigan communities.

HIPAA protects patient privacy by limiting how medical information is shared. But the story of a Michigan mom caring for her adult son shows how these rules sometimes create barriers to necessary care.

Campgrounds and park destinations remain open.