Michigan Educators, Kids Get Ready to Return to School Amid Rising COVID-19 Numbers
Educators and parents were counting on this pandemic school year being safer with vaccinations, but the highly infectious delta variant has...
Michigan Educators, Kids Get Ready to Return to School Amid Rising COVID-19 Numbers
Educators and parents were counting on this pandemic school year being safer with vaccinations, but the highly infectious delta variant has...
Detroit Aims “To Make Sure That Everyone Has the Opportunity To Get Vaccinated,” Health Officer Says
The City of Detroit Health Department has been going door to door since June to inoculate anyone who wants to...
Experts Debate Second Amendment’s Effects on Equality, Inequality in the United States
The right to bear arms is a right many people hold close. Some view the right as integral for self-defense....
Free Speech Carries Costs for Elections, Protests and Vaccines
As part of 101.9 WDET’s Book Club, we’re inviting the Detroit region to examine and discuss the text that impacts...
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan Talks COVID-19, Floods and Census Response
After the FDA authorized additional COVID-19 vaccine doses for the immunocompromised, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced he would offer a third dose...
Detroit Police Department Says Officer Fatally Shot Man During Drag Race
Eli Newman / WDET Detroit police say an undercover officer shot and killed a man following a crash that happened...
Flooded Basement in Metro Detroit? Here’s How to Apply for FEMA Disaster Assistance
When President Joe Biden declared the storm that impacted metro Detroit on June 25-26 a major disaster, it released funding from...
Rep. Debbie Dingell Pushes for National PFAS Regulation
PFAS, or Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, is a group of chemicals that are known to cause cancer, pregnancy and fertility complications,...
Here’s What You Need to Know About Latest COVID-19 Surge, Delta Variant
There is a new surge of COVID-19 cases being driven by the delta variant. This strain of the virus is...
Psychiatry Professor Explores Intersection of Mental Illness and Mass Incarceration
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with around 2 million people locked away any given year. There...
Detroiters Still Sorting Through Aftermath of Flood
People all over metro Detroit are still recovering from last month's flooding, but residents on Detroit's east side have been devastated by the heightened impacts of every...
Coalition Says Ensuring Health and Wealth at Home Depends on Sending Money Abroad
The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition is launching a campaign called “Foreign Aid – What’s It Worth?” Coalition President Liz Schrayer...