A Wayne County judge has rejected Detroit Thermal’s bid to shut down a lawsuit brought by residents of Detroit’s historic Lafayette Park neighborhood, keeping in place a court order that blocks the utility from running steam lines through the protected greenspace.

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State regulators are facing increasing pressure to slow down a $7 billion, 2.2-million-square-foot data center proposed for rural Saline Township, where residents and environmental groups warn the project would destroy wetlands, strain Michigan’s energy grid, and permanently reshape a farming community that opposes the development.

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A federal jury on Monday found that a Clinton Township cop used excessive force during a non-emergency encounter, awarding $4 million in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages to Daniel Reiff, who was left blind in one eye after being punched in the face by the officer.

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Tenants at the historic Leland House just can’t catch a break

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U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers has assembled a campaign team of extremist pastors and activists who have long opposed LGBTQ+ rights and promoted false claims about election fraud, a Metro Times’s review shows. 

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The heat has been out for more than a month in a large part of the historic Alden Towers apartment complex on Detroit’s east riverfront, forcing tenants in 98 units to warm their homes with space heaters in a building that has a growing list of safety and maintenance problems. 

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U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for an open Senate seat in Michigan, introduced articles of impeachment Tuesday against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accusing him of endangering public health, dismantling scientific institutions, and slashing critical medical research. Stevens, a fourth-term moderate Democrat who represents portions of Oakland County, said […]

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Hartland Consolidated Schools in Livingston County fired a teacher who posed a classroom of young children dressed as turkeys in front of an image of a hunter with a gun and then sent the photo to colleagues with a message about which child to “pick off first,” according to a letter sent to parents Monday.

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Hamtramck City Clerk Rana Faraj has filed a sweeping lawsuit against Mayor Amer Ghalib, six council members, and City Manager Alex LaGrou, accusing them of retaliating against her for reporting ballot harvesting, voter intimidation, and residency fraud during the 2025 election cycle.

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The first floor of the historic Leland House in downtown Detroit felt as cold as the street outside. That’s where Dianne Lamb stood on a recent morning, bundled in a hooded winter coat, her breath visible in the unheated air. She’d slept two hours and was worn out from packing. For the past 12 years, […]

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Two right-wing political operatives who orchestrated a racist robocall campaign to suppress turnout among Black voters in Detroit dodged jail time Monday and were sentenced to one year of probation.

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The tenants were given less than a week’s notice to relocate as DTE Energy plans to cut off electricity.

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Monday announced an ambitious plan to transform 28 acres of the long-abandoned Packard Plant into a mixed-use district with housing, manufacturing, and cultural space.

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The Detroit City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution supporting the Living Wage for Musicians Act, a federal proposal introduced by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, to overhaul the way artists are paid for digital streams.

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan had an opportunity this weekend to say whether he thinks President Donald Trump’s threats of jailing and executing political opponents has gone too far. 

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A Detroit fire lieutenant illegally padded his paycheck by submitting time sheets for hours he never worked, and his supervisors failed to stop it, according to a new investigation from the city’s Office of Inspector General.

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Just two days after a violent Jan. 6 defendant marched into Dearborn with a bulletproof vest to taunt Muslims by yelling racial slurs and slapping a Quran with a bag of bacon, a top Trump administration official is now suggesting the U.S. Department of Justice may investigate the people he provoked.

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When Gregory Berry walked out of prison in December 2020 after more than 17 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, he said he had faced a difficult choice: Agree not to sue for wrongful imprisonment or remain incarcerated for life.

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Right-wing provocateur and avowed racist Jake Lang arrived in Dearborn on Tuesday with a bulletproof vest, a Quran he threatened to burn, and a bag of bacon he shoved into people’s faces. 

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