Flint River water starts flowing to the city on April 25. In a press release, the city characterized it as a temporary switch and aimed to ease resident concerns about the water quality.

Flint, Michigan, changed its water system in 2014, resulting in water so toxic that residents got sick. Some even died. But that flip of a switch isn't when the city's water crisis began.

Mona Stonefish pauses to send prayers over the Flint River before a Native American water ceremony and community event in downtown Flint on April 18, 2016. Photograph by Brittany Greeson.

The Flint water plant draws from the river south of Mott Lake and well upstream from the most polluted parts of the river. From 1917 through 1967, the river provided drinking water to the city.

Long before Flint's lead-tainted water brought national attention to the city, everyone in town knew the cost of its water was sky high. Huge price increases had created the highest rates in the ...

FLINT, Mich. — Ten years ago, smiling politicians posed for cameras while pushing a button, swapping the main tap water source for this majority-Black, impoverished city to the Flint River ...

And it was Earley who validated the filtration and use of Flint River water. Later, in 2015, amid rumors of lead compounded with TTHM violations, the city council voted, again 7-1, to "do all ...

FLINT, MI -- Initial testing of treated Flint River water shows it's meeting all quality standards set by the state but is also 70 percent harder than lake water.

Flint's water had lead. The government lied about it. 10 years later, we need answers. While most of Michigan wasn't paying attention, Flint's state-appointed emergency manager had signed on to ...

In April 2014, Flint, Mich., made a controversial decision to switch its water supply from the clean waters of Lake Huron to the polluted Flint River.

FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) - The search for an 8-year-old girl who fell into the Flint River on Sunday, April 28 has turned into a recovery mission. This is the second time in just a few days that a ...

FLINT, MI — Thousands of requests for reconsideration and appeals of claims seeking a piece of the $626-million Flint water ...