Continued fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will linger in Detroit’s budget for the coming fiscal year, Mayor Mike Duggan told the Detroit City Council on Friday.

The city’s estimated 2022 fiscal year revenues are $995 million, less than what it brought in in 2019. The city has taken a particularly hard hit from the sharp drop in gaming taxes and income taxes paid by people who work in Detroit.

The pandemic may have given a lot of Michiganders cabin fever.

Jason Fleming is a spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources.

He says nights spent at state campgrounds between October and February were up about 40% from the same time period last year.

"You know, the reality is, people want to get outdoors, they want to get out of their house," says Fleming.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer made a stop in Washington, D.C. on Friday to visit Michigan National Guard troops.

There are roughly 1,000 Michigan Guard members stationed in Washington following the attacks on the nation’s Capitol.

Despite a request for the troops to remain, the governor said she would not agree to extend the deployment beyond March 12.

March 10 marks one year since Michigan’s first confirmed COVID-19 case. We want to know how COVID has changed your life this year. What’s the worst thing the pandemic has brought - and what’s the best thing?

Local health districts in Northern Michigan said Thursday they will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility at a faster pace than state guidelines.

Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services said earlier this week that anyone 50 and older could get vaccinated against the virus starting on Monday, March 22. People in that age group could get vaccinated earlier — March 8 — if they had a pre-existing condition that would make them particularly vulnerable to the virus.

Before, during, and after drawing a cartoon, my brain is in a constant search for a match — some cartoon or other media where I might have already seen the idea. It's the result of my paranoia that I accidentally commit the worst possible of sins, plagiarism.

A confidential informant who tipped the FBI to an alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to testify Friday morning at a pre-trial hearing of three alleged plotters.

Pete Musico, Joseph Morrison and Paul Bellar are facing numerous charges, including providing material support for terrorist acts.