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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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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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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Plymouth-Canton Community Schools has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit alleging a middle school student’s First Amendment rights were violated when she was reprimanded for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of the war in Gaza. The agreement, announced Thursday by the ACLU of Michigan and the Arab American Civil Rights […]

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Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard lit a match, watched it spread, and then scolded everyone else for the blaze.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the city of Romulus filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop the Trump administration from converting a local warehouse into a large-scale immigration detention center.

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Civil rights advocates and health care workers warned Tuesday that growing fears of immigration enforcement are keeping patients from seeking medical care. 

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson is rolling out a plan to impose strict new safeguards on data centers in Michigan to address concerns over rising energy costs, environmental impacts, and transparency.  As artificial intelligence increases the demand for massive, energy-devouring facilities, many residents across the state are pushing back, saying the projects will harm communities […]

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They were young girls and women, walking to school, home, or a friend’s house in Detroit when they were abducted at gunpoint and raped more than two decades ago. 

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Detroit Department of Transportation Chief of Staff Jennie Whitfield was fired Friday, a week after Metro Times reported that she was accused of showing up drunk at the Rosa Parks Transit Center, berating employees, assaulting a security guard, and chasing a pigeon through the building. Whitfield’s departure was announced internally by DDOT Director Robert Cramer, […]

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