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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed a bat found in Allegan County tested positive for rabies. The Allegan County ...Read Full Story

Will the executive orders issued by President Trump this weekend make any difference for the average American? The president ordered that evictions ...Read Full Story

The Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association today announced it will move the 2020 Fall football season to Spring ...Read Full Story

The United Way of Southwest Michigan is inviting everyone to take part in the 21 Day Equity Challenge next month to get a deeper understanding of ...Read Full Story

Orange barrels marking the start of a massive project to connect US-31 to I-94 will go out on Monday. Michigan Department of Transportation ...Read Full Story

The Berrien RESA Board of Education has voted to waive more than $906,000 in service fees to Berrien County school districts to help them during ...Read Full Story

Michigan is reporting 748 additional cases of COVID-19 for Friday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says the state has had ...Read Full Story

Michigan State Police are investigating a deadly crash in Allegan County. It happened just after 6 a.m. today when a Jeep ran a stop sign and was ...Read Full Story

Michigan will mail postcards telling 4.4 million registered voters they can vote from home in November’s presidential election, and it will ...Read Full Story

Four million free masks are going to be distributed to Michigan’s highest-risk COVID-19 patients. “Today we’re announcing the MI ...Read Full Story

Last week’s primaries in Berrien County kept election workers busy late into the night and into the next morning. Berrien County Clerk Sharon ...Read Full Story

A new statewide program has been launched by Build Up Michigan and PBS Kids to help parents educate their littlest children at home during the ...Read Full Story

Thursday’s meeting of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners delved into the topic of COVID-19 contact tracing, and whether it’s an ...Read Full Story

The Berrien County Board of Commissioners has agreed to let the Berrien County Health Department hire nine additional staff members using federal ...Read Full Story

From the Associated Press — A Detroit-area hospital says it will reinstate visitor restrictions out of an abundance of caution following a ...Read Full Story

Michigan is reporting 1,121 new cases of the coronavirus and 16 additional COVID-19 deaths. The state Department of Health and Human Services says ...Read Full Story

State officials are investigating an incident out of the UP where a drone that was surveying erosion damage to the shoreline was attacked in ...Read Full Story

A first-of-its-kind connected and autonomous vehicle corridor is set to be built between Detroit and Ann Arbor to help test driverless cars. ...Read Full Story

The Benton Harbor Area Schools Board of Education has approved the district’s return to school plan for the coming academic year. Chief of ...Read Full Story

Congressman Fred Upton is pushing for a new coronavirus stimulus package that will include money for schools to reopen. He tells WSJM News ...Read Full Story

South Haven Public Schools will resume instruction this fall virtually. Superintendent Kevin Schooley tells WSJM News district leadership tried to ...Read Full Story

As more schools announce their plans for a return to classes this fall, the Berrien County Health Department is advising them on how to be safe. ...Read Full Story

Indiana Michigan Power continues to work on restoring service to those who lost it in Monday’s storms. I&M has released the following ...Read Full Story

From the Associated Press — Improvements planned for Holland State Park in western Michigan include a new restroom building, an automated ...Read Full Story

There’s been a big find in southwest Michigan as the Mill at Vicksburg is being redeveloped into a mixed use project in southwest Michigan. ...Read Full Story

It’s been a busy time in Benton Harbor for Michigan State Police. The agency assigned six troopers and a sergeant to bolster police patrols ...Read Full Story

Benton Harbor’s central dock is changing hands after 85 years. Jack Kinney has sold it to construction firm Reith-Riley, and the 80-year-old ...Read Full Story

Michigan is reporting 517 additional cases of COVID-19 for Wednesday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says there have been a ...Read Full Story

If you’ve got bags and bags of pop and beer cans piled up because of COVID-19, imagine how the beer and soft drink wholesalers feel. Many, ...Read Full Story

The Michigan Department of Agriculture has confirmed state’s first case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis for 2020. It was diagnosed in a ...Read Full Story