ALPENA -- Two more Northeast Michigan residents -- an Alpena County resident and a Montmorency County resident -- died after being infected with COVID-19, and more than 1,000 Alpena County residents have now been confirmed infected with the illness, according to public health ...
ALPENA — The cardboard pile reaches to the ceiling at the Alpena Resource Recovery Facility after a year of more recycling coming in than going out. A year-end report summarizing 2020 activity shows the facility sent out 1.7 million pounds of recycling between October 2019 and September ...
CALUMET (AP) — A judge has ordered the shutdown of a cafe in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where customers have been supporting an owner who has defiantly served indoor diners despite coronavirus restrictions. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration got a restraining order against Cafe Rosetta in Calumet, a small town in Houghton County. Since November, bars and restaurants in Michigan have been limited to carry-out service or outdoor dining in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Kristi Painter, a state food scientist, visited the cafe for an undercover exam and ...
ALPENA -- As of Tuesday, 771 doses of coronavirus vaccine had been given in Northeast Michigan counties, according to the most current state data available Friday. That includes 508 doses given in Alpena County, 133 in Presque Isle County, 45 in Montmorency County, and 85 doses in Alcona ...
MOJIANG, China (AP) — Deep in the lush valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative to COVID-19. The area is of intense interest because it may hold clues to the origins of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide, but has become a black hole of no information because of political sensitivity. A bat research team that visited recently had their samples confiscated, two people familiar with the matter said. And a team of Associated Press journalists was tailed by plainclothes police in ...
DETROIT (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed a bill Wednesday that would kill emergency public health orders after 28 days unless the Legislature approved, another shot in the power struggle between Michigan’s Democratic chief executive and the state’s Republican lawmakers over how to manage the coronavirus pandemic. The bill “would recklessly undermine” efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Whitmer said. “Unfortunately, epidemics are not limited to 28 days. We should not so limit our ability to respond to them,” ...
