ALPENA — Alpena Public Schools administrators recommend the district’s Board of Education stop emergency COVID-19-related sick leave to the district’s employees. Federal coronavirus relief measures initially mandated employers to provide paid sick leave for absences related to the ...

ALPENA -- A change in paperwork means local public health departments are not tracking those who recover from COVID-19 the way they used to, which could explain why the number of Northeast Michiganders reported recovered from infection seems low in publicly released data. The option to enter ...

ALPENA — A state senator representing Northeast Michigan is calling on his colleagues to block Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s appointments until her administration allows restaurants to reopen. Restaurants have been barred to indoor dining since November as Whitmer pushed to slow the spread of ...

LANSING -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said today she hopes to let restaurants reopen for indoor dining on Feb. 1, as her health department extended a two-month ban by an additional two weeks while letting non-contact sports resume this weekend. The plan is to allow dining with mitigation measures, ...

ALPENA -- Four more Northeast Michigan residents died after being infected with COVID-19, including two Alpena County residents, one Montmorency County resident, and one Alcona County resident, local health officials reported today. MidMichigan Health, the company that owns MidMichigan Medical ...

ALPENA -- Public health officials today asked the public to be patient while employees handle hundreds of calls from residents trying to schedule appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, health officials announced today that at least three more Northeast Michiganders have died ...