chickens

The mix of a low-vaccination season with the worst flu season in years. Then, how Michigan ignored and subverted federal law. Plus, the case of missing chicken wings.

First, the necessary function of comment time in public meetings, and how some cities get it wrong. Also singer Isis Damil sets the tone with her own genre-defying style that is uniquely Detroit. Plus the dean of MSU’s veterinary college talks about the bird flu epidemic, what it means for farming – and your pet’s health.

The tools the US used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural experts. Some egg farmers have called for vaccinations for poultry.

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…