suburbs

What really caused the Flint water crisis?The obvious and well-known answer is the April 2014 decision to start drawing the city's drinking water from the…

Past studies have found strange things happening to frogs when they’re exposed to farm chemicals. A new study shows estrogen in suburban areas is messing…

This week in Michigan politics, Jack Lessenberry and Emily Fox discuss the upcoming hearings on Common Core, the suburban reaction to the possible sale of…

When one thinks of poverty in America, or in Michigan, what image comes to mind? Where are poor people living?Chances are, an image of an inner-city…

Hundreds of the nation’s best teenage figure skaters are in East Lansing this week competing in the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships. Organizers…

It looks like a system that monitors drinking water for at least three million people in southeast Michigan will stay online for another year.The…

Detroit’s water department has been under federal oversight for almost 35 years. Recently, the city tried to get that oversight lifted. But the federal…

If you live in southeast Michigan, chances are you get your water through Detroit’s municipal water system.Detroit owns and operates the system that…