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Healthpoint Services says it has a business model that will not only help the world's low-income populations — but also make a profit. Based in India, the company offers patients videoconferences with doctors, cheap diagnostic tests and clean water. And it hopes to spawn imitators as it proves it can be profitable.

DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is getting a new director.The city of Detroit announced Monday that Sue McCormick has been…

Jackson residents may decide in August if they are willing to pay a special tax to clean up their city streets.Last year, the Michigan Court of Appeals…

The Detroit Zoo is trying to “wean its visitors off the bottle”—off bottled water, that is.The zoo plans to phase out sales of bottled water over the next…

Two cruise ships are getting ready to travel the Great Lakes starting next year. The Yorktown, a new vessel, is scheduled for 13 stops in Detroit. The…

For the last 30 years, a plume of a colorless, odorless toxic chemical has been steadily creeping toward one of the main water supplies in the city of Ann…

DETROIT (AP) - Officials say Detroit stopped testing water at Belle Isle Beach in the Detroit River for E. coli last year because of its financial…

34 striking Detroit water department workers have been suspended and will be fired, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department confirmed Tuesday.The…

DETROIT (AP) - Workers are back on the picket line a day after a judge ordered them to end a strike protesting job cuts at the Detroit regional water…

About 10 years ago, a weird chemical started showing up in the drinking water in St. Louis, Michigan.It was a byproduct of DDT. The insecticide is now…