Michigan News from MLive

The state has announced some details of a $600 million Flint water crisis settlement, a University of Michigan coronavirus dashboard shows the school’s positive tests and the Michigan Renaissance Festival is canceled for 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan State switches to remote learning for the fall semester, Michigan opts in on an extra $300 per week for unemployed workers and the state’s unemployment agency is using snail mail to fight fraud. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers a virtual speech for the Democratic National Convention, the Michigan Supreme Court is asked to reconsider the absentee ballot deadline and a spring high school football season will not include a nine-game schedule See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An apology is issued after the improper arrest of a journalist in Kalamazoo, the Michigan Senate held a rare weekend session to approve a package of education bills and unusual behavior by a bear has closed parts of a Lake Superior island. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer mandates mask use at child-care centers and camps, Michigan is among the 10 states with the highest rate of unemployment and a marijuana recall is triggered in Michigan after an employee allegedly licked a joint. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voter participation in Tuesday’s primary shattered records, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared racism a public health crisis and the Trump campaign says Michigan voters deserve a presidential debate before early voting starts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Secretary of State says the rules for counting absentee ballots should be changed, a coronavirus outbreak at a West Michigan prison has spread to more than 150 inmates and you can find last-minute campsites with a new DNR map. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Michigan legislature has canceled session after a lawmaker tested positive for COVID-19, Lake Michigan is “dangerously cold,” according to the National Weather Service and U-M students returning to campus must practice “enhanced social distancing” for 14 days See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Michigan senator has tested positive for COVID-19, coronavirus recoveries in Michigan have topped 60,000 and a longtime Detroit radio host dies at 48. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan’s top health official says schools can reopen if residents follow coronavirus guidelines, Mackinac Bridge workers are asking motorists to wear masks when paying tolls and Sleeping Bear Dunes water conditions are being monitored by a buoy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer orders tightened COVID restrictions in Northern Michigan, a court rules former Gov. Rick Snyder and other defendants will face a Flint water lawsuit and Detroit casinos can reopen at 15% capacity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan residents are receiving mysterious seeds from China, the Grand Rapids region has been moved into the “medium high” coronavirus risk level and clerks across the state are urging the in-person return of outstanding absentee ballots See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state is starting spot checks of businesses for COVID-19 prevention rules, auto insurance companies in Michigan must dole out $95 million in customer refunds and a Michigan hospital is in search of volunteers for a coronavirus vaccine study. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Whitmer is set to decide on a bill involving the separation of nursing home coronavirus patients, Michigan unemployment checks will shrink with the expiration of a $600 benefit and a portion of Michigan is in a moderate drought See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone is required to wear a mask on all three University of Michigan campuses, Michigan hires an accounting firm to help investigate unemployment fraud and with no fans, Comerica Park pipes in some artificial buzz. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

July’s new coronavirus cases in Michigan have already eclipsed the entirety of June, experts are expecting a wave of eviction cases now that a moratorium has lifted and a West Michigan school is the latest to consider a team name change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has extended Michigan’s coronavirus state of emergency, a federal COVID response team is headed to Grand Rapids and the first case of a mosquito-borne illness has been reported in Michigan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has extended orders involving grocery store hours and nursing home protections, coronavirus vaccines being manufactured in Michigan get ‘fast track’ status and Kroger cashiers aren’t giving out coin change due to a national shortage See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Businesses must start enforcing Michigan’s mask rule today, a large house party has caused a coronavirus outbreak in Washtenaw County and Michigan lawmakers are putting a focus on recycling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan medical professionals will be required to undergo implicit bias training, the Big Ten will play conference-only football in 2020 and one of the most popular attractions at Sleeping Bear Dunes reopens this weekend. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan reports the highest number of new coronavirus cases in seven weeks, several regions of Michigan moved into increased risk categories for COVID-19 and the University of Michigan plans to join a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan sues U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, groundwater clean-up is planned for the site where toxic ooze appeared on a Michigan highway and a Sherwood Forest knockoff festival has been listed as a coronavirus exposure site. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A federal judge throws out a lawsuit against the Michigan redistricting commission, more than 2 million Michiganders have received unemployment payments since mid-March and the organizer of a Fourth of July party in Southwest Michigan may face charges See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since March, 11 beaches in Michigan are under contamination advisories or closures and an Independence Day sandbar party in Southwest Michigan is getting attention on social media. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bars are once again closed in Michigan due to the coronavirus pandemic, Michigan driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations won’t expire until the end of September and some tips for staying safe this weekend in extreme heat. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices