More than 6,000 signatures have been collected by a group seeking to change Dearborn's city council format from an at-large ...

Homicides are falling dramatically in many U.S. cities, after a surge in 2020 and 2021. Analysts say a reinvestment in communities from local government after the pandemic's disruption is a key reason ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Friday a bill that authorizes the state of Michigan to transfer the Detroit Detention ...

Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield's use of tax dollars to send greeting cards to Detroiters could be helping her ...

Nine candidates and one write-in are vying to replace Mike Duggan as mayor of Detroit. Here's the Detroit Free Press ...

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The Detroit Detention Center will now be fully staffed and managed by the city of Detroit, freeing up staff and resources for ...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer enacts bill for Detroit Detention Center sale, aiming to save taxpayer money and boost local ...

There will be nine Detroiters on the ballot vying to be the next mayor of Detroit when we vote in the August 5 primary. The two highest vote getters move on to the November general election.

Mayoral candidates expect to provide protections, but laws prevent deep involvement. Fears of immigrant backlash have loomed ...

Advocates say higher-valued properties are still being underassessed and lower-valued properties are still being overassessed, despite the city's claim that there is "no systemic overassessment" ...