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Adding to its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, Dickinson County Healthcare has been named a 2019 Top Rural Hospital. Widely acknowledged as the most prestigious distin...

The Senate today passed provisions led and supported by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) that will benefit servicemembers and their families as well as Michigan's defense sector that contribute to our na...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced today a decision by Ford Motor Company to expand at two if its key facilities and establish a new vehicle modification center in southeast Michigan, creating more than ...

The Chartis Center for Rural Health and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) has named Helen Newberry Joy Hospital a 2019 Performance Leadership Award Winner. Based on t...

Including the cities of Grand Marais, Munising, Newberry,and Seney WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY Lake effect and blowing snow expected. Total snow ac...

The Escanaba School Board voted 5-2 Monday night to close the Soo Hill Elementary School at the end of this school year. The move will save the district approximately $250,000 a year, although no teac...

Michigan became the first state in the country to sue major opioid distributors as drug dealers when it filed a lawsuit against Cardinal Health Inc., McKesson Corporation, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corpo...

Highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, OSF HealthCare St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group was named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for the ...

Today, two bipartisan broadband bills cosponsored by Rep. Jack Bergman passed the U.S. House of Representatives. These proposals would improve federal support for rural broadband buildouts in the most...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Lifecourse Epidemiology and Genomics Division has received a $1.65 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....