Michigan

Prosecutors drop Flint charges, FEMA is short-staffed, and Illinois affirms women's reproductive rights.

Flint's water crisis contributed to a national image of the city as a site of intractable poverty. Local business people are working to to change that perception.

Michigan's voting maps will get a makeover, a judge makes a call on a domestic terrorism case, and a parrot may be party to a crime.

With Roe v. Wade under threat, the stakes are high for abortion protections in states across the country.

Congress will consider a bill requiring states to work with federal agencies to remove and remediate water contaminated with a dangerous chemical compound.

Detroit public schools shut off the district-wide water supply last week after tests found elevated levels of lead or copper in 34 schools.

Tests have revealed that water in Parchment, Michigan, contains 20 times the federal health advisory for dangerous substances known as PFAS.

Critics say the legislation being put forth in Michigan will unfairly benefit rural white communities over the more urban black areas—but is that true?

A bid by Republican legislators to identify residents' immigration status on state-issued identification would have marked them for discriminatory policing, activists say.

Governor Rick Snyder announced Friday that the city's water supply is safe for residents.

Two landmark Supreme Court rulings made clear that juvenile life sentences are unconstitutional. Yet hundreds remain in prison, many of them without access to educational programs.

As states have stopped funding driver's education, participation has declined, with lower-income teens and teens of color missing out.

New research finds the issue of how legislative districts are drawn, currently being considered by the Supreme Court, is far from academic.

A 2015 law signed by Governor Rick Snyder protects child-placement agencies from providing services that conflict with their religious beliefs.

An aging population and decline in housing affordability are just two of the long-term issues residents of Detroit will face in coming years.

"I'm focused on getting resources to the citizens that I represent to improve the quality of life for my neighbors, and my colleagues' neighbors across the State of Michigan," Jones says.

When state and federal regulations for contamination differ, the responsibility falls on citizens to navigate the risks.

Vague regulations let government officials hide drinking water contamination from the public.

Michigan's voters decided to scrap the kind of super-empowered emergency managers who made questionable decisions in Flint—but state lawmakers found a way to revive the program.

Lessons about Flint’s long history of dirty water—from 1873 to the latest revelations about toxic taps.

The crisis in Flint, Michigan, reveals the dangerous downside of treating public safety as just another line item.

Looking at the Flint water crisis from a different perspective.

Thanks to the Flint water crisis, the city's kids could experience terrible, long-lasting consequences.

High chloride levels are problematic.