During the recent Falls Prevention Awareness Week, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services partnered with the Michigan Falls Prevention Coalition, GetSetUp and the National Council on Aging to promote online tools designed to help older adults reduce their risk of falls, one of the ...

While highly pathogenic avian influenza has not been detected in Michigan’s domestic animals since March, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development encourages animal owners to remain vigilant and take preventative measures as wild birds that may carry the virus complete ...

Internet experts call it ransomware, a very particular type of virus that infects computers and restricts users’ access to their files or threatens the permanent destruction of their information unless a ransom — anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars — is paid. The virus ...

A page 1A story in Wednesday's Mining Journal should have shocked all who read it: in a nutshell, the piece underscored the fact that 17 veterans each day die by suicide in this country. That's more than 6,000 per year, for those readers wondering about the math. Considering that all ...

It’s something that's easy to do, letting time slip through one’s fingers. But a front page story and photo package on Tuesday should remind us all: catch the Upper Peninsula’s spectacular color season before it’s gone. With a few days of summery weather here and there, it might be ...

Our friends on Wall Street and in Washington keep saying that inflation is vanquished as they hope — plead — for lower interest rates. Yet the economic data aren’t bearing out their optimism, as the Labor Department’s consumer price report for August revealed earlier this ...