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How Michigan's new $54.9 billion budget will affect you

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Detroit school children, Flint residents and residents across Michigan will be affected when the next state budget takes effect in…

Stateside 5.30.2018

Today on Stateside, we hear about a new report making an economic case for shutting down Enbridge's Line 5 pipelines. Plus, the Kent County team of…

FILE - This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. The polio virus has been found in New York City's wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn't been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.

Poliovirus detected in more wastewater near New York City

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state is stepping up polio-fighting efforts as the virus was detected in the wastewater of another county in the New York City area.

How do you stay optimistic in spite of it all? 6 hopeful souls share their secrets

They're activist and advocates from Brazil, Colombia, India, Kenya, Lesotho and the U.S. We wanted to know: How do they stay positive in the face of the world's many problems and woes?

Congress asks Snyder to address Legionnaires' testimony

A congressional committee has asked Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to address when he learned about a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease during the Flint…

A group of sea otters gather in Morro Bay, Calif., in 2010. It's been more than a century since sea otters were hunted to near extinction along the U.S. West Coast. The animals were successfully reintroduced along the Washington, British Columbia and California coasts, but an attempt to bring them back to Oregon in the early 1970s failed. A local nonprofit is advocating for another attempt.

Coastal tribes in Oregon hope to bring sea otters back to their community

Sea otters were hunted to near extinction along the U.S. West Coast. During the century they have been away, a lucrative shellfish industry has grown in the waters where restoration would take place.

The <em>Peanuts</em> gang celebrates Thanksgiving, but why is Franklin by himself on one side of the table?

'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' turns 50 this year. How has it held up?

CBS first aired the televised holiday special in 1973. The message still shines, but some characters and scenes feel a little dated.

Stateside for Monday, February 15, 2016

Thousands of newly-released documents prove how state bureaucrats shrugged off worries about the Legionnaires' outbreak in Flint. A team of Detroit News…

Heidi Grether, Gov. Rick Snyder's appointee for head of the Department of Environmental Quality.

Gov. Snyder appoints former BP exec Heidi Grether as new MDEQ head

Gov. Rick Snyder has appointed Heidi Grether as the new head of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, his office announced today.Grether is…

A mother and daughter await volunteer assistance while stuck in a makeshift camp at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted

The end of Title 42 has raised questions on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border about what will transpire in the months to come — both procedurally and politically.

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