Mar. 30--As local, state and federal officials scour Michigan for sites that could be transformed into coronavirus overflow hospitals, experts in dealing with mass disasters warn of the mammoth task ahead that's filled with logistical nightmares and severe staffing shortages. Already, TCF Center in Detroit has been selected to become a 900-bed field hospital for COVID-19 cases for at least six ... Read More

Commuters working from home won’t notice for a while, but a major downtown bridge -- Jackson Boulevard over the Kennedy Expressway -- will close for construction on Friday and won’t open again until 2022. The closure is part of the long-running and much-delayed Jane Byrne Interchange project, which got started in 2013. The bridge shutdown will be followed later this spring by the closing of ... Read More

CLEVELAND (AP) — A partnership of two Asia-based companies proposing to build an ethane “cracker” plant along the Ohio River announced Wednesday it had reached economic development agreements that would pay a school district and a township more than $47 million in coming years. In return, the companies would receive a 15-year property tax exemption for the plant through a state enterprise zone ... Read More

DULUTH – Husky Energy is suspending the rebuilding of its oil refinery in Superior due to the coronavirus. “Given the current safety and public health risks, Husky has begun a systematic and orderly suspension of major construction activities related to the Superior rebuild project,” spokeswoman Kim Guttormson said Tuesday. The refinery was damaged by an explosion and fire in April 2018 that ... Read More

Electricity provider Great River Energy is already operating at “medium threat response level,” and could kick into a higher gear and sequester its most critical workers if the spread of COVID-19 gets worse. Such scenarios are playing out across the U.S. electric utility sector, one of society’s bedrock industries. Certain utility workers, those in control rooms or out power lines, can’t work ... Read More

Across Wisconsin, businesses - those that are still open - were once again scrambling Monday to respond to the latest developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, it's an order from Gov. Tony Evers telling people to stay at home. The governor's "safer at home" order will require many workers in the state to work remotely, or lose their jobs, by closing all workplaces that aren't ... Read More

Mar. 22--ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis and St. Louis County leaders on Saturday ordered their 1.3 million residents to stay home, even as the governors of Missouri and Illinois made new pleas to slow the spread of the coronavirus -- and the numbers of infected continued to multiply. St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and St. Louis County Executive Sam Page mandated residents stay home beginning Monday, ... Read More

Roseland Community Hospital is re-purposing rooms, establishing an outside screening center and bulking up staff in preparation of the virus spreading. Other hospitals are doing the same. Roseland Community Hospital has operated at about 90% of capacity each day since nearby MetroSouth Medical Center closed last year. And that's before the coronavirus outbreak hit. So Roseland, a so-called ... Read More

The Wisconsin Center's planned expansion - the largest development pending in the Milwaukee area - is being delayed indefinitely because of financial turmoil tied to the coronavirus pandemic The downtown Milwaukee convention facility plans to double its space with the expansion, which could cost up to $425 million. The Wisconsin Center District, the state-created agency that operates the ... Read More

Public transit agencies, which are grappling with a sharp drop in riders because of the new coronavirus, face enormous losses and are expected to ask federal and state governments for billions of dollars in financial aid. With schools shuttered and residents being urged to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, transit agencies nationwide have been ... Read More