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Detroit Police say a technology known as “Shot Spotter” would help the department’s battle against gun violence. The department wants to use $2.6 million…

The misshapen map above is from a 2011 USDA report, but it gives you the idea.Pickles are big business in Michigan. With cucumber farmers located near…

Student Loan DebtA pair of Michigan lawmakers is warning that people with government-backed student loans will see their interest rate double - unless…

Lucas Mann's Class A combines baseball and sociology in this chronicle of a farm team from a fading Iowa factory town. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Mann "uses the full tool kit of literary nonfiction" in a book that "encompasses nostalgia, hope and failure."

As you probably know, a Titanic battle has been going on for years now over whether to build a new bridge over the Detroit River.On one side is Governor…

More than 20 years ago, Dr. Hawa Abdi set out to change her broken society when she turned her 1,300-acre farmland outside Mogadishu into a camp for 90,000 internally displaced Somalis. Now she calls it Hawa Village — and it includes a hospital, school and farm.

Federal investment in Detroit light rail? Ray LaHood in Detroit todayU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be in Detroit today to meet with a…

In her new book, Self-Inflicted Wounds, Tyler writes about her dalliances with failure and humiliation on the long road to success. She says it wasn't easy being the geeky, tall, black girl who loves science fiction and video games. But it was worth it.

A new report predicts home prices in Detroit will continue to decline. But the report also finds Michigan home prices overall are stabilizing. Real estate…

The neuroscience major-turned songwriter is bringing her unique mix of pop ballads, soulful belting and dance arrangements to North America for a new tour.