A closer look: Why Detroit firefighters gave up on factory blaze
The fire has been burning for seven days, filling the sky near downtown with black smoke.
Wanted: Medical marijuana critics to write for Motor City Muckraker
The reviewer would test new products, find the best smoke shops and make recommendations that are useful to the more than 115,000 registered marijuana patients.
Billboards depict Detroit as industrial wasteland ruined by UAW
The crumbling Packard Plant is featured on a billboard aimed at fighting UAW efforts.
Billionaire Matty Moroun lets workers nearly freeze in warehouse
The freezing workers finally walked out in protest after temperatures reached negative 15 degrees.
Photo essay: Explore blighted area to be turned into 140-acre forest in Detroit
The largely abandoned area is littered with trash, tires, furniture, rotting homes and discarded boats.
Project to transform 140 acres of blight into large urban farm finally underway
The plan is to plant 15,000 hardwood trees like maple and oak this spring over an area riddled with abandoned homes, dead trees and piles of garbage, tires and old furniture.
Detroiter finds 1964 Marvin Gaye passport worth at least $20,000
“Out of an album fell this passport,” the man said. “It literally fell into my hands.”
Analysis: At least 75 shot, 17 murdered in Detroit in January
The good news? Shootings dropped 25% from January 2013.
Study: Auto insurance in Detroit is most expensive in nation – by far
Sometimes it’s not the lack of a car that forces people to stop driving in Detroit. It’s often the cost of insurance.
Top Senate leader calls for investigation into treasury’s handling of Andy Dillon, others
“The Governor needs to stop trying to cover this up and come clean about the sweetheart deals and cronyism that is rampant in the Department of Treasury,” Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer said.