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Michigan Labor Day Travel Alert: 50 Cities Crawling With Bed Bugs
Getting out of Michigan and exploring the country is a great way to relax and unplug. However, according to Orkin, suppose your travels are taking you to one of the country's 50 most bed bug-infested cities. In that case, you may want to reconsider your stay or at least take every precaution to ensure you don't bring any bloodsuckers back to your Michigan bedroom. Is your vacation destination on Orkin's list of America's most bed bug-infested cities?
M-STEP results give Michigan’s first look at achievement for kids who started school during COVID
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.More Michigan third and fourth graders are behind in reading and writing compared to students in the same grades before the pandemic started and last year, newly released state standardized test results show.The results, which provide the first look at state proficiency scores for students who entered kindergarten and first grade in the 2020-21 year when most schools were virtual, suggest many of those children have struggled to catch up.Results released Wednesday from the spring Michigan Student Test of Educational...
Can You Recognize These 10 Rich Michigan Neighborhoods?
I was not blessed enough to be born into money and live in one of the nicer neighborhoods in my city. I can say that I was lucky enough to have become friends with some of those kids and have spent some time in their neighborhoods and get a glimpse of their life. Yes, those neighborhoods are really nice, and they live a little bit different but at the end of the day they are still humans and have the same problems we do.
Alert-Michigan Residents Warned Beware Of Severe And Deadly Virus
Health officials in Michigan are seeing cases of illnesses that usually circulate in the Great Lakes state this time of year. But one little-known virus has health officials concerned and Michigan residents are urged to beware as it's spreading quickly and has turned deadly. Michigan Residents Warned Beware Of Severe...
New Severe T-Storm Watch issued for Detroit area, Ann Arbor area for 70 mph gusts, golfball-size hail, isolated tornadoes
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Southeast Lower Michigan and Lake Huron effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 355 p.m. until 900 p.m. The primary threats include scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely, isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible and a tornado or two possible.
M-STEP results reveal struggles for Michigan kids who began school in COVID
New Michigan test results provide first look at scores for students who began school during COVID-19 closures. Data shows those students are behind in reading and writing. About 40% of Michigan third graders are proficient in English language arts down from 45% before the pandemic. More Michigan kids who enrolled...
Extreme Heat Closes Many Southwest Michigan Schools
Just as school gets started, Tuesday's expected 105-degree heat index closes many schools throughout Southwest Michigan. The Kalamazoo area is expecting a mix of sun and clouds with a high of 95 and a heat index of 105 degrees. Evening thunderstorms could be severe but will cool things down a bit. In the meantime, the temperatures will be dangerous and should be taken seriously. With that being said, many local schools have either shortened their hours of operation or completely closed today. Here's what we know so far, but you should check your email and/or your school's official website to get the most updated information. We gathered the following info from WWMT News Channel 3 and Fox 17.
Just 44 People Live in Michigan’s Tiniest Town
Having grown up in a small town, I can tell you that there isn't much you can get away with when everybody knows everybody and their business. However, the same can be said about Detroit, Michigan's biggest city, which has small neighborhoods where nothing happens without the whole block hearing about it.
Bye Bye, Barrels – Michigan Road Construction Halted For Holiday Weekend
Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer in Michigan, and in preparation for increased traffic on Michigan roadways, as people look to get away to enjoy the weekend, the state of Michigan has announced that road construction will be halted. In a release, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that...
Crews work to restore power to more than 300,000 Michigan homes, businesses after storms
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Crews for two of Michigan’s largest utilities were working to restore power Wednesday to more than 300,000 homes and businesses left in the dark amid hot, muggy conditions after severe storms toppled trees and limbs onto power lines. More than 320,000 Michigan customers...
Michigan to lift some traffic restrictions to ease Labor Day weekend travel
(CBS DETROIT) - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Transportation announced that more than half of the traffic restrictions currently in place will be removed to ease traffic delays for people traveling over Labor Day weekend. From 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 30, through 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, crews will have lane restrictions for 96 out of the 161 projects removed. While 60% of the road and bridge projects will have lane restrictions lifted, drivers should know that some equipment and traffic configurations will stay as is, including temporary shift and shoulder closures.In addition, officials are reminding travelers...
Michigan approves major projects meant to create hundreds of jobs, revitalize areas
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday the approval of several major projects that are meant to create hundreds of jobs in Michigan. The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) approved incentives for projects in Grand Rapids, Greenville, and Northville. "Today’s approved projects will drive more than $740 million of investment, creating and protecting...
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