Detroit MI

After nearly a year of living in deplorable conditions at Pelham Mobile Home Park, a Dearborn Heights family is finally getting the help they desperately needed.

MADISON HEIGHTS — When Madison Heights City Manager Melissa Marsh nominated Rae Stoloff for the Rising Star Award, Stoloff felt moved, but didn’t expect to win the prestigious award. It is bestowed by the Michigan Library Association each year to one librarian early in their career. “It was...

A 6-year-old girl has died following a house fire in Detroit early this morning. Detroit Fire Department crews were alerted to a house fire around 6 a.m. in the 12000 block of Rutherford, near Greenfield and Plymouth, with reports of people trapped inside. Fire officials say the response time from...

DETROIT – Dozens of bikes donated by the community rolled out to new homes on Saturday, Dec. 13. The bikes were given to kids and families who need them most, providing more than just transportation. A bike means freedom and independence, especially in a city where access to transportation...

A rare and historic home known as the “Bottle House” is now on the market in Hazel Park. The home, located at 39 West Elza Avenue, was built in 1937 using more than 20,000 glass bottles embedded into concrete block walls. The bottles vary in color, size, and shape and were placed with their ends facing outward,...

A teenager has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old Detroit boy near a Dollar General store in Highland Park last month​.

Ex–Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been in the news over the past week. He filed a motion asking his sentencing judge to relieve him of the $823,681 the federal government says he owes Detroit taxpayers in restitution stemming from his 2013 public corruption conviction. Federal prosecutors quickly responded by...

Van Buren Township residents express concern about pollution, ratepayer impacts from proposed 1 gigawatt data center.

Detroit rapper Sada Baby waived his preliminary hearing on felony drug charges and will face trial after a January arrest. Sada Baby waived his preliminary examination earlier this week and will face trial in Macomb County Circuit Court on felony drug possession charges. The Detroit rapper appeared before a Judge...

HEIGHTS – Plante Moran’s Brian Camiller told residents during a town hall meeting Dec. 10 at Annapolis High School that the city’s financial position is fragile and trending in the wrong direction. He said the city is spending more than it is bringing in, and used $10...