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WATCH HERE: Michigan COVID-19 Update - Gov. Whitmer News Conferences

By WKAR Staff • Sep 16, 2020
courtesy / michigan.gov

RECENTLY: Wed. Sep. 16 at 2:30pm | WATCH HERE

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Chief Medical Executive Dr. Joneigh Khaldun provide an update regarding the state’s response efforts to COVID-19. They will also be joined by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to give an update on the upcoming general election and voting opportunities Michiganders can take advantage of in advance of the Nov. 3 election.

As 30 EL Properties Remain Quarantined, Nearly 100 MSU Students Isolating Or Quarantining On Campus

By • Sep 16, 2020
Taylor Haelterman / WKAR/MSU

At Michigan State University, 95 students are isolating or quarantining on campus.


Senate Adopts Bills To Allow Faster Ballot Counting

By • Sep 15, 2020
Michigan Senate
Reginald Hardwick / WKAR-MSU

The Michigan Senate adopted a bill Tuesday that would allow many local governments to prepare absentee ballots to be opened and processed the evening before Election Day. Local clerks say that could shave hours off the process of tallying the ballots.

Jill Biden Campaigns In Michigan For Her Husband

By Steve Carmody | Michigan Radio • Sep 15, 2020
Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio

The wife of Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden was campaigning for her husband in Michigan Tuesday.

EL Leads Mid-Michigan Region COVID-19 Totals

By • Sep 15, 2020
buildings and clock
Courtesy / City of East Lansing

East Lansing is now the epicenter of mid-Michigan’s local COVID-19 outbreak. 

 


Tasing Of Inmate Sparks Five-Hour Inmate Takeover At UP Prison

By Tracy Samilton | Michigan Radio • Sep 15, 2020
Flickr - Todd Ehlers

The state has temporarily relocated 236 inmates from an Upper Peninsula prison, after some prisoners took over a housing unit at Chippewa Correctional Facility Sunday night.

Whitmer, GOP Leaders Reach Preliminary Budget Deal

By • Sep 15, 2020
stack of money
flickr/Ken Teegardin

Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s budget chief and the Legislature’s Republican appropriations chairs announced they’re close to a final budget deal before the October 1st deadline.

U-Michigan Sues Over Strike By Graduate Students Who Teach

By Associated Press • Sep 15, 2020
University of Michigan
Reginald Hardwick / WKAR-MSU

The University of Michigan is suing to stop a strike by graduate-student instructors after they voted to extend their walkout.

Lansing Schools To Address 'Cyber-Truancy' With Parent Forum

By • Sep 15, 2020
Computer keyboard photo
lisaclarke / flickr creative commons

The Lansing Public School District is beginning the second week of what’s already become a historic academic year.  Educators are watching for a new twist on an old problem: truancy. 

WKAR’s Kevin Lavery spoke with truancy specialist Bryan Crenshaw and Kyron Harvell, who runs a new program called Parent University.


Isle Royale Announces Wolf Pups Are Being Born On The Island

By Ben Thorp | WCMU • Sep 14, 2020
Courtesy / Isle Royale National Park

Isle Royale National Park is reporting at least two new wolf pups have been born on the island.

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