Dustin Dwyer | Michigan Radio
Dustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Radio’s West Michigan bureau. He was a fellow in the class of 2018 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He’s been with Michigan Radio since 2004, when he started as an intern in the newsroom.
He left the station in 2010-2011 to be a stay at home dad, and returned to be part of the Changing Gears project, a collaboration between Michigan Radio, Ideastream in Cleveland and WBEZ in Chicago. From 2012 – 2017, he was part of the team for State of Opportunity, and produced several radio documentaries on kids and families in Michigan. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife and three kids.
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The prosecutor who will decide whether to criminally charge the Grand Rapids police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya accepted a political contribution from the officers' union. -
La familia de Patrick Lyoya quiere que el policía responsable del tiroteo fatal sea despedido y procesado -
Attorneys for Patrick Lyoya’s family said the family wants to know the identity of the police officer who shot Lyoya on April 4. They also want the officer to be fired and prosecuted.
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A second man has agreed to plead guilty in the federal case over the alleged conspiracy to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. -
The shortest route to get a ship from Asia to the U.S. is through America's West Coast ports. But given the pileup there, some ships are going the long way through eastern Canada into the Great Lakes.
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Michigan hospitals are seeing more COVID-19 patients than at any other time during the pandemic. At one Grand Rapids hospital, patients are doubled up in rooms and the staff is utterly exhausted.
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Hospital leaders say they are doing everything they can to deal with the crush of patients statewide. -
Spring brings thousands of seasonal migrant workers to farms across the country, where they usually live in camps with several to a room sleeping in bunk beds. How does that work during a pandemic?
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The Michigan congressman is the only Republican to call for impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Many who know Amash say they're not surprised at his stance, even if it costs him his seat. -
Last month federal immigration authorities took Jilmar Ramos-Gomez into custody to face possible deportation. He was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., served in the Marines and saw combat in Afghanistan.
