Efforts To Help Flint Amid Water Crisis Get $520,000 Boost
Work planned with the grants includes improving access to health care and nutritious foods.
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Work planned with the grants includes improving access to health care and nutritious foods.
The head of Michigan's health agency told legislators that state experts likely wanted to "solve the problem" before they raised it with higher-level executives.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette guaranteed more charges in the $1.5 million investigation, which being led by a former FBI agent.
One of two women found shot to death in a Flint apartment was among dozens of people who earlier filed lawsuits over lead-tainted water in the city.
Two state regulators and a Flint employee are charged with evidence tampering and several other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city's lead-tainted water crisis.
The charges will be filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality officials and a local water treatment plant supervisor, according to reports.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will drink Flint water at home and at work for at least a month to show to residents it is safe with the use of a faucet filter.
The strategy, which starts May 1, is intended to get rid of lead particles and to coat the pipes with a corrosion control.
Flint residents who've grown accustomed to using bottled water and avoiding the faucet are getting new instructions: Turn on the taps.
The latest documents include memos from the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Health and Department of Treasury.
Michigan would have the toughest lead-testing rules in the nation and require the replacement of all underground lead service pipes in the state under the sweeping plan.
Michigan's governor spoke to a sold out Detroit Athletic Club crowd of 500 about the Flint water crisis and more including Detroit Public Schools.
The Environmental Protection Agency's top water regulator says officials are working to strengthen a federal rule limiting lead and copper in drinking water.
Officials say a mixture of sewage and storm water was discharged into the Flint River this week due to excessive wet weather.
"This experience is irreplaceable. They (students) will remember this experience for the rest of their lives."
A legislative committee created to review Flint's water crisis will hear next from the leaders of a task force that spent months investigating the disaster.
Three more cases of Legionnaires disease have been confirmed in the state — including two deaths.
A series of short documentary videos and radio segments is exploring how Flint residents are dealing with the city's lead-tainted water crisis.
A panel appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder concluded that the state is "fundamentally accountable" for the lead crisis.
It's one of many suits arising from the decision to switch Flint from the Detroit water system to the Flint River.
The contaminated water problems of Flint are well known. But the city is struggling with another problem -- a nearly $35 million budget deficit.
Snyder said he took responsibility but that "you don't roll up into a ball" and that he's "committed to fixing the issues in Flint."
An average of 400 families will receive food with each distribution.
The mayor of Flint says an initiative to replace service lines as the city faces a crisis with lead-tainted water hasn't moved as quickly as first hoped.
A Dearborn woman is making headlines after trading @DietDrPepper for something more meaningful.
