Detroit firefighters can’t catch break: Rig gets stuck, then breaks down
The Detroit Fire Department’s aging and battered ladder trucks have been breaking down faster than mechanics can fix them.
Gangs from Detroit bring violence, drugs to West Virginia communities
Four Detroiters are suspects in two separate shootings in Charleston on Wednesday in which one teenager was killed.
Detroit Public Schools fails students without standards for under-qualified teachers
The lack of professional standards prompted one teacher to give up his career to sell insurance.
Long-abandoned Cass Corridor apartments to be revived with 47 units
The public is invited to the groundbreaking at 11 a.m. today.
Busted! Chicago-area investor forced to stop scavenging vacant building in Detroit
“We have to set the tone that this is absolutely unacceptable, and we are going to use our resources to go after scrapping,” mayoral spokeswoman Alexis Wiley said.
City does nothing as dangerous scrapping operation continues on Detroit’s east side
The unstable ceiling of the building is propped up with chemical containers.
PJ’s Lager House: ‘Show must go on’ after fire in Corktown
The tenants, who escaped unharmed, tried to save their three cats but it was too late.
Former High Times editor takes helm of revamped Metro Times in Detroit
Valerie Vande Panne is an award-winning journalist and Michigan native.
Investor who wanted Packard Plant scraps buildings, late on taxes
When one of our photographers approached the scrappers to inquire about the illegal operation, they tried to run him over with a truck.
Fire breaks out at crowded PJ’s Lager House in Corktown; 3 cats die
Firefighters were called to the popular bar on Michigan Avenue after an upper-level flat caught fire at 10:40 p.m.