MARQUETTE — State Rep. Sara Cambensy, D-Marquette, and several members of the Michigan House of Representatives have sent a letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, urging the governor to reopen Unemployment Insurance Agency regional offices and phone lines to help process the backlog of cases and ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Natalie Bin Narkprasert’s business was in Paris. But she was locked down by COVID-19 restrictions and stuck in Thailand. Her heart was in Thailand, too — and it ached for her compatriots who were suffering in the pandemic. She thought of her own grandmother. “She’s ...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital was bracing Monday for a resurgence of the coronavirus after more than 100 new cases were reported in recent days in a city that hadn’t seen a case of local transmission in more than a month. The United States, meanwhile, continued to struggle with an ...

BERLIN (AP) — Borders opened up across Europe today after three months of coronavirus closures that began chaotically in March. But many restrictions persist, it’s unclear how keen Europeans will be to travel this summer and the continent is still closed to Americans, Asians and other ...

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Downtown Development Authority has announced that starting Monday, parking meters and pay stations in downtown Marquette will be reactivated and enforcement of paid parking will resume. The parking rate is 50 cents per hour, which can be paid with coin, ...

LONDON (AP) — Global poverty is set to rise above 1 billion people once again as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which is reducing the income of the world’s poorest by $500 million a day, according to new research published today. The research by King’s College London and the ...