4+ hour ago  (504+ words) Attorney General Dana Nessel joins the suit to protect funding for mental health care in schools. City Clerk Janice Winfrey responds to the Department of Justice’s plans to send poll monitors to Detroit and more. Nessel’s office says in a…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (552+ words) Plus, an update on restoring power, a study on who is taking up caretaking for aging populations and more in this Detroit Evening Report. Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan, says there are now over…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (382+ words) This Detroit Evening Report covers what to do to stay healthy in extreme heat. Plus, a Ford recall and Shotspotter is renewed in the city. Most of Michigan’s lower peninsula, including all of Metro Detroit, remains under an extreme heat…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (251+ words) David Leins is the senior producer of WDET’s daily news and culture program, The Metro. He has produced several award-winning podcasts and multimedia series at WDET including Tracked and Traced, Science of Grief and COVID Diaries, which earned a National…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (439+ words) Tazin Banu and Riya Ahmed founded the Bengali Mental Health Movement in New York. They want to open the door for conversations about mental health for Bengali and Bangladeshi communities. The Bengali Mental Health Movement launched online as an anonymous…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (217+ words) Five years ago drug overdoses were killing more than 3,000 people a year in Michigan. It was the worst the state had seen. Behind that number were parents, sons and daughters — people who’d been trying to get well for years. That…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (327+ words) Researchers found that tree canopies do improve health, but benefits vary based on socioeconomic factors such as income. Health experts and urban planners have long believed that planting more trees in residential areas is good for everyone in those neighborhoods....

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (416+ words) Internship and scholarship opportunities for students, a roundtable for Foster Care Month and more in this Detroit Evening Report. The Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network is a health care safety net organization working to improve health outcomes in metro Detroit....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (218+ words) The city pays three private companies up to $600,000 a year each just to be on standby — and those companies can still bill patients when they respond. Detroit contracts with three private ambulance companies for 911 standby coverage, supplementing the Detroit Fire…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (247+ words) Autism in the D helps support autistic children and their families. The Weekend of Inclusivity is one of Detroit’s largest autism awareness walks. Tiera Moultrie, founder of Autism in the D. About 1 in 31 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed…...