A senior Detroit Department of Transportation official received a significant raise after the city’s watchdog recommended discipline, while the agency’s former chief safety officer was suspended twice and fired after cooperating with the same investigation.

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The fallout from Detroit’s toxic demolition dirt scandal continues to grow months after former Mayor Mike Duggan left office, with the city now testing more than 650 sites and spending millions more to measure the scope of a crisis that was announced during the final days of his administration.

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This is the tenth installment in “Exploring Integrity: Reviewing Wrongful Conviction Remedies,” a series examining the impact of conviction integrity units on the American judicial system’s rate of wrongful conviction. Presented by the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, the investigation is supported by Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After 25 years of what he calls unwarranted […]

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Nine state lawmakers and a coalition of human rights groups, pastors, and local elected leaders are calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to release a woman inmate who is seriously sick from mold exposure before she dies.

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A new poll of likely Democratic primary voters in Michigan shows the race for U.S. Senate remains wide open, with Abdul El-Sayed, Haley Stevens, and Mallory McMorrow effectively tied and a large share of voters still undecided.

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Detroit officials celebrated the reopening of AB Ford Park last fall as a major step forward for the waterfront site. 

But months later, residents who live next to the waterfront park say it’s plagued by flooding, dead trees, leftover construction debris, a crumbling parking lot, and missing amenities that were promised to the community.

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Detroit’s top bus safety officer has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the city and his mayoral-appointed boss, alleging he was suspended and fired for reporting misconduct by senior officials and cooperating with an Inspector General investigation. 

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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Trump administration announced plans to put Michigan officials in charge of a $1.15 billion Chicago-area river barrier designed to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes. In a statement posted Thursday on X, Assistant Secretary of […]

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Detroit will unveil a street sign Saturday honoring Viola Liuzzo, the white Detroit mother of five who was killed by Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama after responding to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to support the Selma voting rights movement in 1965.

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The city of Detroit fired its chief bus safety officer Wednesday after he blew the whistle on a top Department of Transportation official for allegedly showing up drunk at a transit center, berating employees, assaulting a security guard, and driving off in a city-issued car.  

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Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, federal immigration agents have arrested 4,218 people in Michigan, and less than a quarter had criminal convictions, according to a Metro Times’s review of data from the Deportation Data Project

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The Detroit Tigers celebrated their home opener on Friday with a 4-0 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals at Comerica Park.

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Energy company Detroit Thermal is claiming a Wayne County jury handed it a “sweeping verdict” in a controversial case over whether the utility can run steam lines across Lafayette Park townhomes to heat a nearby high-rise. But the legal reality is far more complicated.  The jury on Tuesday rejected one claim from townhome residents, finding […]

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A fire broke out at the iconic Maccabees Building on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on Wednesday afternoon, sending plumes of smoke through Wayne State University’s campus. 

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A Detroit man whose murder conviction was based on coerced witness statements from a disgraced former homicide detective has been exonerated and freed after nearly 28 years in prison. 

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U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’s newly announced student outreach team includes a member who complained about women in politics and another who defended a leaked Young Republicans group chat filled with praise for Hitler, gas chamber jokes, racial slurs, and rape comments.

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State Sen. Mallory McMorrow says voters don’t trust politicians who “talk out of both sides of your mouth.”

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More than 25,000 people turned out at eight No Kings protests across metro Detroit on Saturday, organizers estimate, calling it “one of the largest coordinated civic mobilizations the region has seen in years.”

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