While the small Calhoun College is the first to require vaccinations, it may not be the last.

The governor appears to be jettisoning a plan that required up to 70 percent of residents to get vaccines for additional pandemic restrictions to be lifted. CDC mask guidelines and improving numbers have changed the calculus.

There are more than 600 summer festivals in Michigan. Some are canceled, some are full-steam ahead as the state emerges from a year-long pandemic.

About 7.5 percent of the state’s kids ages 12 to 15 have been vaccinated against COVID-19, leaving the state looking for ways to keep momentum strong.

Quentin Messer Jr. wants to increase prosperity across the state when he takes over the $139 million agency. He says Michigan has a ‘spectacular’ talent base.

With Michigan facing a widening teacher shortage, the state superintendent suggested a rule tweak with huge ramifications: waive the 150 hours of training ex-teachers are required to take to return to classrooms.

One week after Trump had praised the “blockbuster” case, a Michigan judge on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit over Antrim County election results, ruling a request for an independent audit was “moot.”

If current vaccination rates continue, Michigan wouldn’t fully reopen for months under the governor’s current plan, endangering the summer tourist season. To business leaders, that’s untenable now that the mask mandate has ended for the vaccinated.

Federal guidance late last week that gave vaccinated people more freedom to go maskless left the state and private businesses scrambling to update their own rules.