Elizabeth Hertel

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel will resign as of June 30. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Amy Epkey to serve as acting director of the agency.

Elizabeth Hertel, the leader of the state Department of Health and Human Services, appeared before the Michigan House Oversight Committee Tuesday for a tense hearing.

Today, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services director Elizabeth Hertel talks about Michigan’s Child Protective Services progress under federal oversight. Then, a 1950s “shark attack” in Lake Michigan. Plus, the Kresge Foundation’s president and CEO Rip Rapson discusses the foundation’s ongoing mission and its 100th anniversary.

“The power of the pandemic is that it really helped to shine a light on the needs of our young people,” said Michael Rice, superintendent of public instruction.

Michigan’s child welfare system met fewer than half of the standards reviewers looked at in a new report.

The state’s top health official says she stands by Michigan’s COVID-19 fatality numbers for the state’s nursing homes. But she concedes other numbers for…

Today on Stateside, Congressman Peter Meijer, an Army veteran, reacts to news that President Joe Biden plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by…