MARQUETTE — Providing abortions was the last thing Shawn Brown thought she’d be doing when she opened an urgent care clinic in a remote area of Upper Michigan. But she also wasn’t expecting the Planned Parenthood in Marquette to shut down last spring. Roughly 1,100 patients relied on ...

HANCOCK — The Portage Health Auxiliary announces 2026 healthcare career scholarship applications are now available for residents of Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties. The deadline is April 30. Applications are available at the Guilded Rose gift shop, UPHS-Portage in ...

IRON RIVER – Employees at Aspirus Iron River have reportedly reached a new contract agreement. A statement released Thursday from Aspirus states: "With every contract and every bargaining group, Aspirus negotiates in good faith to arrive at terms that support our threefold commitment to our ...

MIAMI — Midwife Sheila Simms Watson leaned to gently press on the pregnant woman’s belly. Me’Asia Taylor lay on a bed fitted with tie-dyed purple printed sheets in the corner of the RV. Far from a typical camper, this RV houses a mobile midwifery clinic for prenatal, postpartum and ...

HOLT — Eleanor Middlin was 15 when her family sent her to a Missouri boarding school, an 11-hour drive from her mid-Michigan home. It was the worst thing that ever happened to her. It also saved her life. “I’m alive because of it, and I will never be able to forget it,” Middlin, now ...

LANSING - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is alerting residents about possible community transmission of measles and recommendations to protect communities. Seven measles cases have been identified in Washtenaw County and an eighth case of measles was confirmed ...