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The Obama administration's Social Innovation Fund has spent millions to help scores of nonprofits develop innovative solutions to pressing social problems. While participating groups say they're helping thousands of people, it's not yet clear what the government is getting for its money.

Job creation has been dragging for most of this year in the state and across the country. That helped push Michigan’s unemployment rate slightly higher to…

The presidential election is still a month away, but in many states, early voting is already underway.Today, Ohio opened the polls to early voters.It’s…

They look like one-person bobsleds. They run on lawnmower engines. And they get incredible mileage.They’re cars that achieve what’s called supermileage.…

Slugger Prince Fielder has only played one regular season game with the Detroit Tigers, but the team is reveling in his economic impact.The Tigers drew a…

The Palisades nuclear power plant is returning to service after being shut down for the last four weeks to repair a leaking water tank.The tank is a giant…

Americans for the Arts, a national advocacy group, says Michigan's governor elect is a champion of the arts. In Republican Rick Snyder's plan to reinvent…

Detroit officials are finalizing plans for the city’s annual Angels' Night campaign.That’s an effort to put a damper on the arson sprees that once…

Starting at 9am this morning, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will hold an auction to lease state-owned drilling rights for oil and natural…

Michael Zusman used to be a lawyer, specializing in suing financial companies. The work literally started making him sick. Then he stumbled into baking. His new cookbook promises that you can make your own pastrami, pickles and bagels better than you can buy at your local deli.