Motor City Match to Connect Entrepreneurs with Properties
Marissa Gawel/WDET The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation is launching a program designed to lure more business to the city. The...
The Kresge Foundation Awards $1.6 Million to Community Projects
The Kresge Foundation is funding more than $1.6 million dollars’ worth of community projects in Detroit. Foundation CEO Rip Rapson...
Homeland Security Officials, Volunteers Prepare For Tornado Season
This weekend Detroiters will be greeted by a sound generated every first Saturday of the month: A tornado warning...
Downtown, Midtown Growing, But the Market’s ‘Not Yet Driving Itself’
Compared to the rest of the city, the centralized 7.2 square miles of Detroit have a greater density of people...
Wayne County Extends Foreclosure Deadline
Wayne County officials are extending the deadline for homeowners to pay some or all of their property taxes and...
The Knight Foundation Announces Winners of its Cities Challenge
Marissa Gawel/WDET The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is awarding $600,000 dollars to projects designed to increase opportunity and...
Tax Foreclosures Make National Headlines As Wayne County Prepares To Foreclose on 70-thousand homes
Today (Tues) is the last day for Wayne County homeowners at risk of losing their homes due to unpaid back...
Thousands Rush To Meet Foreclosure Deadline
In Detroit tens of thousands of people are facing a deadline today that could cost some of them their...
Feds Return Control Of Housing Commission To Detroit
The US Housing and Urban Development Department is preparing to return control of the Detroit Housing Commission to city...
New Report: State Hampering DPS By Withholding Money to Pay Debt
WDET “It is just absolutely unfathomable and unacceptable for us as a community to allow the neediest children, the children who...
A History of Metro Detroit’s Extreme Tornadoes [TIMELINE]
The Palm Sunday tornadoes that ripped across Monroe and Lenawee Counties in 1965 packed winds estimated at 200 miles an...
Michigan Prepares To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak
Next week, several communities throughout the Midwest will commemorate one of the worst tornado outbreaks in the nation’s history. On April...