Highland Park Residents: Text WDET With Your Concerns About Water Quality

101.9 WDET is partnering with Outlier Media to introduce a texting service for Highland Park residents to identify gaps in...

Prosecutors Might Be Running Out Of Time To File Charges In Flint Water Crisis

WDET Digital April of next year marks the six-year anniversary of the start of the Flint Water Crisis. That’s significant, because...

Former Flint Councilman on Why Justice Hasn’t Been Served For the City

Joan Isabella/WDET State officials have apologized for the mishandling of the Flint water disaster over and over. But for one former...

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Talks Race, Environment and Justice for Flint

Bre'Anna Tinsley/ WDET Water is life. It’s the very basis for life on this planet. And access to it is one...

The Flint Water Crisis’ Latest Victim Died Earlier This Year

This February, one of the most recent deaths caused by the Flint Water Crisis occurred: Jassmine McBride, who died 6 months...

In Response to Water Crisis, Brightmoor Students Build Filtration System

A group of high school students is flattening a patch of dirt next to a modest-looking church in the northwest...

United Way Is Leading the Search for Long-Term Solutions for Flint

Jake Neher/WDET It’s been over 5 years since Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a Flint pediatrician, first brought public attention to the...

Highland Park Turns Attention to Water Line Repairs, Funding, After Lead Scare

Eighteen homes have tested for elevated lead levels in the second round of testing in Highland Park, water department director Damon...

Air Pollution Kills 7 Million Every Year. Thousands Are Americans.

Air pollution is a problem that kills millions of people every year, including more than 100,000 Americans. Environmental journalist and author...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Says Recent ICE Raids, Deportations “Racialized, Hate-Filled, Un-American”

She might be a first-term member of Congress, but no one in Michigan’s delegation is getting more attention than Rep....

Where Democratic Presidential Candidates Stand on Climate Change

While the Trump administration has rolled back many climate initiatives and staffing at the Environmental Protection Agency is at a historic...

Journalist Anna Clark On the Lessons to Learn from Flint

Anna Clark It's been five years since a state emergency manager switched Flint's water supply to the Flint river, beginning...