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State lawmakers propose spending money on water infrastructure

State lawmakers are proposing using one-time federal funds to underwrite a $2.5 billion investment in Michigan’s water infrastructure.The bill would use…

Kaleb Danndels directs an excavator as it pushes a pipe segment into a hole drilled through the clay. He watches to make sure the existing 6-inch diameter water main he is standing above is not damaged. The existing water main will be abandoned after the new 8-inch water main is installed. The excavator on the left pushes the pipe into the small tunnel, while the excavator on the right holds the pipe steady.

After decades of neglect, bill coming due for Michigan’s water infrastructure

Though the costs are enormous and success is by no means assured if upgraded assets are not maintained, for the first time in decades Michigan is addressing systemic challenges in delivering drinking water and cleaning up wastewater that local and state officials and taxpaying residents have been unable to resolve.

Flint pastors ask court to order city to go back to Detroit water

A coalition of pastors and other groups is asking a judge to force the city of Flint to go back to getting its tap water from the Detroit Water and…

Flint City Clerk Inez Brown administers the oath of office to the new Flint city council members.

New Flint city council in the 'spotlight'

“I do solemnly swear,” intoned City Clerk Inez Brown, as she led the nine members of the Flint city council through their oath of office.The new city…

ACLU, NAACP-LDF demand Flint officials stop threatening residents' homes over unpaid water bills

The ACLU of Michigan and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund are calling for Flint City Council and Mayor Karen Weaver to suspend any efforts to…

Family members exchange photographs of their lost loved ones in the lobby of the Akin Gump law firm offices on Thursday in Manhattan, NY. The family members and victims gave statements to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court with the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma LP, present on Thursday.

For the first time, victims of the opioid crisis formally confront the Sackler family

The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, have maintained they did nothing wrong. People who lost loved ones and years of their lives to opioid addiction believe otherwise.

Virginia Tech researcher accuses state health officials of "hiding" data on Flint's water

Updated 10:30 p.m.Virginia Tech researchers accuse Michigan health officials of trying to “stonewall” the investigation into lead in Flint’s drinking…

Over 3.45 million Americans celebrate the Islamic holy month - here are a few tips to get you acquainted!

Not even water? And other things not to say to your Muslim friends during Ramadan

Millions of Americans celebrate the Islamic holy month --- here are a few tips to get you acquainted!

An image provided by the Environmental Protection Agency shows examples of a lead pipe, left, a corroded steel pipe, center, and a lead pipe treated with protective orthophosphate. The EPA is only now requiring water systems to take stock of their lead pipes, decades after new ones were banned.

'Time bomb' lead pipes will be removed. But first water utilities have to find them

Health experts warn problems with these "underground poisonous straws" can strike suddenly, and states are getting cash to replace them. But no one knows how many lines exist or where they are.

How people in Flint were stripped of a basic human need: safe drinking water

In part two of Michigan Radio's documentary, Not Safe to Drink, we’ll hear how Lee Anne Walters contacts the EPA, and red flags start to go up. Mike Glasgow’s fear about corrosion turns out to be well founded.

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