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Nearly 36,000 Detroit properties foreclosed ahead of 2018 tax auction
The annual wave of displacement that’s been devastating Detroit neighborhoods for nearly a decade is rolling right along, with this coming year shaping up to look much like the last. About 36,000...
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Nearly all of Detroit's 1,900 miles of residential streets have been plowed,...
Hallelujah! If you live in Detroit and have been snowed in following the Wednesday winter storm that produced more than six inches — there's a 90 percent chance you're free! The city says it deployed...
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Michigan starts accepting applications for medical pot operations
When we interviewed a pot grower for a cover story on the state’s changing medical marijuana industry earlier this year, he was squirreling away money and soliciting help from investors in...
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Kids can pick up free backpacks and books at The Wright tomorrow
Families in need of school supplies for the upcoming semester can stock up on backpacks, books, and other items at The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Saturday, Dec. 16. The...
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Bill Schuette hires partisan AG staff ahead of Michigan gubernatorial run
According to Michigan's constitution and civil service rules, "no appointments, promotions, demotions, or removals in the classified service shall be made for religious, racial, or partisan...
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Federal judge says Michigan can't suspend poor people's driver's licenses
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday calling for Michigan's Secretary of State to stop suspending driver's licenses of people too poor to pay court debts and traffic tickets....
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Art, a 'makers space,' and big brands that cannot be named coming to...
The $1 billion dollar, somewhat taxpayer subsidized skyscraper coming to Detroit is going to have a lot of neat stuff curated by Dan Gilbert and company, who have curated nearly all of downtown....
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Freep opinion editor Stephen Henderson fired for misconduct
Pulitzer prize winning Free Press columnist and Detroit media icon Stephen Henderson has been terminated from the daily after its management says credible allegations surfaced that his behavior was...
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What if Hudson's department store had never been demolished?
Given yesterday's groundbreaking for a new development on the site of the former world-famous J. L. Hudson's department store, there's been plenty of backward glances cast over the last 24 hours. We...
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Ferndale-based alt-right media group Church Militant will host a Noel Night...
An alt-right and ultra conservative media group called Church Militant has been steadily recruiting followers and gaining steam since Michael Voris founded the news site. Voris and the media group,...
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Stephen Henderson says he disagrees with Free Press firing, is exploring...
On Monday morning, Stephen Henderson took to his show Detroit Today to discuss his firing from the Free Press on Friday, where he shed light on what led the paper to fire the Pulitzer Prize-winner...
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Michigan's strange affinity for candy corn stretches into the holiday season
We're in the thick of the holiday feeding frenzy, and Michiganders' exemplary tastes are in the spotlight once again. As standard candies get wrapped or dyed red and green for Christmas-time...
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Metro Detroit ranked one of the best places to own a home rather than rent
If you live in metro Detroit, a new study has found that it's more cost effective to own a home than to rent one. Detroit is the second-best big metropolitan area in the country to own rather than...
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Survey says: Detroit is thirsty as hell for Amazon's second headquarters
For several months now, we've felt Detroit's thirst for Amazon HQ2. We've seen more than two dozen of the area's biggest corporate and civic leaders come together on a bid to convince the e-commerce...
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Detroit is likely not getting a Major League Soccer team
It looks like Detroit's bid for its own Major League Soccer team might be a miss. The Motor City was named as one of four finalists to receive one of two available MLS expansion franchises by 2020 — a...
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Detroit's Islandview Big Boy will be demolished to make way for a new...
A new development is planned for the site of the shuttered Big Boy restaurant on East Jefferson across from Belle Isle in Detroit. The Platform, the development company that also owns the Fisher...
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ACLU: Juggalos can sue local police for mistreatment
Following Monday's news that hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse lost an appeal challenging the FBI's designation of its fans, known as Juggalos, as a "gang," Michigan's ACLU is looking for the silver...
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The agony of MSU
Larry Nassar, the physician for Michigan State University's women's gymnastics team, was celebrated for years as a wonderful sports physician, especially skilled with young women athletes. He also...
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A brave new world for marijuana in Michigan
Got a lawyer in your back pocket? Got your millionaire lined up yet?…
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Savage Love: Loving lesbians
I am a 22-year-old Italian man, 100 percent straight, sensitive and sporty. I have been reading Savage Love for years in Internazionale.…
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