Plus: The Labadie Rib Festival in Bay City is expanding with national music acts and international BBQ vendors.

BAY CITY, MI – The Bay City Public Schools Board of Education approved a contract with Frankenmuth School District Superintendent Grant Hegenauer as the district’s next top administrator.

An eighth-grade Handy Middle School student who collapsed and died last month after getting off his school bus was on the phone with a friend when he fell to the ground, saying he was having chest ...