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On today's Stateside, what to know about avian flu, how Ann Arbor Public Schools administrators plan to handle the budget deficit, and a new Detroit art installation tackles environmental racism.

Waterloo, Michigan is home to a record-breaking resident: Peanut, the world’s oldest living chicken. Stateside production assistant Cate Weiser visited Peanut and her caretaker to hear more about the chicken’s miraculous life.

Allegations of a Catholic medical clinic denying care for a transgender girl, a new podcast series covering the disappearance of gay Black men in Hollywood, the upcoming sale of the Toonerville Trolley and Tahquamenon Falls Riverboat Tours, and an interview with the oldest chicken in the world.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is a contagious virus that can be spread in various ways — though health authorities say the risk to humans is low. Tens of thousands of domestic birds have been euthanized this year in Michigan.

Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist signed SB 174 into law on Thursday, which mandates that all egg laying hens in Michigan be kept in cage-free systems…

A state House committee has approved a bill to give egg producers more time to convert their facilities to less confining conditions for the…

Officials in Michigan have lifted a statewide ban on poultry exhibitions that was put in place earlier this year as a precaution to a bird flu outbreak…

Michigan’s second largest city will welcome backyard chickens beginning this spring.In the summer of 2010, Grand Rapids city commissioners narrowly…

On Tuesday, elected leaders in Grand Rapids could vote to allow people to keep chickens in their backyards.“I’m excited,” Amy Bowditch said of the…

One of Flint’s leading urban farmers is being told she has to get rid of her chickens.Roxanne Adair operates a commercial urban farm in Flint. She sells…