The Metro: Fined, profitable and raising your rates—a week of Michigan utility headlines, explained
Michigan's bitterly cold winter has many staring down high energy bills — the highest in the Midwest. These rising costs...
The Metro: Fined, profitable and raising your rates—a week of Michigan utility headlines, explained
Michigan's bitterly cold winter has many staring down high energy bills — the highest in the Midwest. These rising costs...
The Metro: A 93-year-old pipe flooded Southwest Detroit. Now GLWA wants historic rate hike
The price of water has been steadily rising in Southeast Michigan. Now, one of the steepest rate increases in the...
The Metro: The bus is running. The question is how well
After years of pandemic disruption, driver shortages, and declining public trust, Southeast Michigan’s transit agencies say they’re finally back on...
Visions: New music, classics, a local piano concert series and more
This week on Visions, I decide to take us all over the musical map. I celebrate classics and brand new...
DNR awards new community grants to grow Southeast Michigan’s urban tree canopy
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is giving money to 25 communities and organizations to help grow local urban tree...
Detroit Evening Report: Department of Public Works announces bus stop recycling pilot
The Detroit Department of Public Works announced a new effort to keep the city clean with a recycling pilot program...
Cooling centers to open across metro Detroit during upcoming heat wave
As Michiganders in metro Detroit brace themselves for a massive heat wave early next week, many communities are opening cooling...
Detroit Evening Report: Scattered storms expected to linger through the weekend in southeast Michigan
Tornadoes may be possible for a second consecutive night across much of lower Michigan on Friday, with parts of metro...
Tornado watch, warnings in effect across southeast Michigan overnight Friday
Several tornado warnings and watches were issued across southeast Michigan overnight on Friday, as a line of severe storms made...
The Metro: Nonprofit aims to conserve bird habitats in metro Detroit
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Global warming and climate change poses a significant threat to two-thirds...
All-electric recycling trucks to replace some diesel garbage trucks in southeast Michigan
Some counties in Michigan will be swapping out diesel garbage trucks for all-electric recycling trucks.In Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties,...
The Metro: Breaking down the 2024 election in Dearborn, southeast Michigan
Donald Trump’s second presidential victory has a lot of people questioning how much the Democratic and Republican parties are changing...