Sarah Cwiek

The program will use $50 million in American Rescue Plan funds to provide grants to nonprofit developers. They can use the money to finance construction of new homes, or to rehab existing ones.

A research team led by a University of Michigan medical professor found that hospital deaths during childbirth actually fell by more than half from 1995 through 2015. But it also found that a majority of pregnancy-related deaths now occur either before or after birth.

Things are different from when the first wave of the original vaccine and its boosters came through. There won’t be an all-out push from public health agencies to get people vaccinated through mass vaccination clinics. And shots are still free for now, but that could change early next year.

Dr. Natalie Gladstein, an obstetrician-gynecologist in southeast Michigan, said reviving the state's 1931 law criminalizing abortion would “put women's health at risk and cause immeasurable suffering for many people."

Lawyers are scheduled to give closing arguments Monday in the trial of Adam Fox and Barry Croft. This is their second trial on conspiracy charges related to the alleged Whitmer kidnapping plot. The jury deadlocked in their first trial.

After two years of litigating in state court, Enbridge argued it should be moved to federal court because the case deals with federal questions.

Whitmer said the state needs to build on the momentum of the record education budget she just signed, and provide relief to families and teachers hurt by inflation.

The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency has retroactively seized money from people it says received pandemic-related federal supplemental unemployment they didn’t actually qualify for. That led to a lawsuit from some affected people who say the state has no right to punish them for its own mistake without due process.

The results of the research were dramatic — and disturbing. Even with a relatively modest temperature increase of 1.6 degrees Celsius — just under 3 degrees Fahrenheit — survival rates for the most common boreal species fell by up to 40%, with growth rates are showing huge decreases.

The Memorandum of Understanding is between Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. It aims to create what state officials call an “electric Route 66” that covers more than 1,100 drivable miles of Lake Michigan shoreline.