CuriosiD: What’s Happened at the State Fairgrounds?
Listener Jennifer Gulati is curious about the status of the Michigan State Fairgrounds at Woodward and 8 Mile. “I show...
Environment
How Significant is Volvo’s Move Away From Traditional Engines?
Jennifer Pruss/WDET This week Volvo announced its line of cars will all be electric or hybrid-electric in two years. Multiple...
GOP State Lawmaker: Asian Carp “A Slow Motion Disaster That We’re Allowing… Right Before Our Eyes”
Office of state Sen. John Proos Last week, a fisherman caught a live Asian Carp in waterways nine miles away...
State Environmental Agency Sues Flint to Make Water Deal
Sascha Raiyn/WDET The state of Michigan is in federal court trying to force the city of Flint to accept a...
Live Asian Carp Discovered in Chicago Waterway
A live Asian carp has been discovered in a Chicago waterway about nine miles from Lake Michigan. Federal and state...
Could Flint Water Charges Reach the Governor’s Office? Prosecutor David Leyton Joins Detroit Today
Genesee County Several state and city officials face new charges in the Flint Water Crisis. The charges include involuntary manslaughter...
Michigan Environmental Agency Scraps Line 5 Safety Report
Sandra Svoboda/WDET The state of Michigan has scrapped a risk study on Enbridge’s Line 5 and fired the contractor just...
Enbridge Says Second Pressure Test Shows Line 5 is Safe
Pat Batcheller Enbridge Energy says pressure tests on two sections of Line 5 that runs under the Straits of Mackinac...
Top Legislators Give Mixed Response to Snyder Keeping Lyon in Office
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Gov. Rick Snyder is raising a lot of eyebrows by keeping the state health...
Sturgeon Recovery Endangered on Lake Ontario
On the shores of the lower Niagara River, about 10 miles from Niagara Falls, a group of biologists from the...
Schuette Files Toughest Flint Water Charges Yet
Jake Neher/WDET Two high-ranking state officials in Michigan face serious charges for allegedly keeping an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in...
Lake Superior Cleanup Threatened by Trump Budget Cuts
Long-standing plans to clean up the headwaters of Lake Superior have been thrown into doubt by Trump administration budget priorities....
