ALPENA -- Alpena Community College has dropped its facemask mandate as the rate of new COVID-19 infections in Northeast Michigan fell for the third week in a row. The college said it will not mandate masks on campus, though students and staff still could wear masks and instructors could still ...

ALPENA — Northeast Michigan counties make up four of the six Michigan counties still considered at high risk for COVID-19 transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC recommends continued mask usage in the four-county Alpena area, as well as in Sanilac ...

ALPENA -- Alpena Community College officials will continue to ask students to mask at least until after the college’s spring break, despite declining active infections and masking rules falling elsewhere. As of Thursday, at least 180 Northeast Michiganders were actively infected with ...

ALPENA -- The number of Northeast Michiganders actively infected with the coronavirus inched upward again this week as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said COVID-19 vaccines have been less effective against the omicron variant of the disease but still greatly reduce the ...

ALPENA -- Weekly reported cases of COVID-19 have decreased rapidly in the past two weeks. After averaging more than 300 new reported infections per week in January, in the past week, public health officials have reported 92 newly infected or probably infected Northeast Michiganders who had been ...

ALPENA -- As of Thursday, at least 943 Northeast Michiganders were actively infected with COVID-19, while about 60% of Northeast Michiganders 5 and older had been fully vaccinated against the disease. This week’s active infections -- a News estimate based on cumulative infections minus ...