Ted Roelofs

Sarah Noffze, 22, a 2014 graduate of Michigan State University, said she was happy to land a full-time job in Minneapolis, where there’s lots to do despite the cold. (Courtesy photo) It’s not as if Sarah Noffze dislikes Michigan. After all, she grew up in suburban Detroit, went to Michigan State University and served on […]

A national study finds rising death rates for midlife whites without a college education, even as mortality rates for other groups fall. So it is in Michigan, with stress and poor health leading to drug and alcohol overdoses and suicide.

The state is on the front lines of detecting head injuries. Yet Bridge found that Michigan allows high school football teams anywhere from four to six times as much full-contact hitting at practices as states like Ohio, Alabama and Texas.

A lawsuit claims that youth football led to brain damage and the suicide at age 25 of an Upper Peninsula football player.

With new legislation on the horizon, advocates for expanded practice rights for highly trained nurses say the move would lower costs and improve access to health care, particularly in rural Michigan.

In this rural Upper Peninsula family, one doctor, one nurse practitioner and two opinions on giving some nurses more autonomy to treat patients.

Should a law that protects rural farmers also allow urban farmers to raise goats in city neighborhoods?

An interest in locally grown food is raising the profile of women farmers in Michigan, particularly on small-scale farms.

With 23 million gallons of oil and gas passing beneath the Straits of Mackinac each day, Bridge weighs the evidence on the safety of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline.