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LANSING – Michigan is helping provide lower interest rates to first-time homebuyers in eight cities.About 300 individual or families in Detroit, Grand…

When President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, he offered some ideas for tackling this national emergency. He didn't offer…

The amount of tree cover in our cities is dropping, and we have more paved surfaces. Those are the main findings from a national study by the U.S. Forest…

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have left Gaza in the past year, as conditions there have worsened.

Forty years ago, in December 1979, Jimmy Carter was president, William Milliken was Michigan's governor, and Coleman Young was the mayor of Detroit. The…

A charity cookbook featuring soup recipes from Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain and others, famous and not, has raised $300,000 so far for displaced Syrians. Why soup? It's a universal comfort food.

Update Friday, September 23:Recreation on the Huron River has been resumed and, so far, water tests show no threat to human health, according to an…

A new book, Austin to ATX, explains the creative, contrarian history of the Texas capital. As South By Southwest ravages a large swath of the city, let's take a look back.

Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History began a two-day memorial and public viewing for Aretha Franklin Tuesday morning, and…

Early budget indications suggest the Trump administration could slash funding for the Great Lakes.There are many possible cuts to EPA programs. Great…