IRON MOUNTAIN — Some military veterans are delaying or foregoing medical visits to the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain due to its masking policies, according to U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet. Bergman this week sent a letter to Iron Mountain VA Director John ...

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — To help remove barriers and ensure more Michigan residents have access to COVID-19 outpatient treatments, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is offering a Test to Treat program at 13 locations across the state that offer ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden has the same authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on federal workers that private employers have for their employees, an administration lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday. A lawyer for opponents of the vaccine requirement, which ...

MARQUETTE — The Luce-Mackinac-Alger-Schoolcraft District Health Department announced that COVID-19 cases are up in its areas, especially in Schoolcraft County, with eight cases from July 6-13 increasing to 21 cases in the following week ending on July 20. The U.P. has added just over 1,200 ...

ST. IGNACE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved Mackinac County into its community level classification of high risk for COVID-19 transmission and infection, the Luce-Mackinac-Alger-Schoolcraft District Health Department announced on Wednesday. In Mackinac County, ...

MARQUETTE — An area health department has created a new program to address an opioid problem that has affected people before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Luce-Mackinac-Alger-Schoolcraft District Health Department on Wednesday announced that it is addressing the increased opioid use ...