Detroit city leaders report on response to air quality alert, wildfire smoke
"This is pretty unprecedented," Ali Abazeed, Detroit's chief public health officer, said about the air quality due to wildfire smoke.
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"This is pretty unprecedented," Ali Abazeed, Detroit's chief public health officer, said about the air quality due to wildfire smoke.
Michigan's environmental agency acknowledged the Line 5 tunnel would destroy burial grounds and harm threatened species — impacts it called the largest of any project it has reviewed — but approved permits anyway, citing oil spill risk from the existing pipeline.
The disruptions to Metro Detroit events and summer program schedules continue into Friday because of the poor air quality. Here's a list.
Authorities on Friday arrested 25-year-old Rajena Linson, who has been wanted since 2022 in connection with an alleged attack that left a woman critically injured.
Since January, the Coast Guard says command center watchstanders in the Great Lakes District have received 187 false distress calls.
Michigan's air quality remains hazardous throughout Friday morning and afternoon, but some relief is on the horizon for the nighttime.
A Detroit man is charged in connection with a fatal shooting at a motorcycle club in March, prosecutors said.
On July 14, a jury convicted 21-year-old Kayvon Briscoe Hall of second-degree murder and felony firearm in the death of his partner.
Residents in Detroit are speaking out after they say speeding has become a major problem on their residential road.
A private sewer connection can cost a Detroit homeowner more than $10,000 to repair.
Many newer vehicles are equipped with high-efficiency cabin air filters capable of capturing a significant amount of fine particulate matter.
Kelli Bryant, 35, pleaded no contest to three counts of first-degree child abuse on Thursday, Oakland County prosecutors said.
The last 20 years have seen a steady number of wildfire occurrences in the U.S. and an increase in Canada.
Detroit had the worst air quality in the world on Thursday because of the fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.
Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, praised the cooperation between the two countries as wildfire smoke from along the border drifts over multiple states and provinces.
