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The city of Detroit continues to try to find a way out of its fiscal crisis.A new report led by Michigan State University economist, Eric Scorsone,…

Update:Michigan ranks 13th worst in the nation for bridge condition according to a new report released on national bridge conditions. The report says…

If you pick up either Detroit newspaper, you will find story after story about the fact that the city’s mediocre football team lost to another mediocre…

People who are working on cleaning up the Great Lakes got some good news this week. After months of negotiations, the 2012 federal budget contains $300…

Thirteen years ago, a friend who runs a political PR firm urged me to meet a man he saw as a visionary politician who he was going to be elected mayor and…

Alice McDermott's characters can often be described as average, and Marie, the heroine of her latest novel, is no exception. But critic Maureen Corrigan says the power of McDermott's writing is that she can make even Marie's run-of-the-mill life one for the record books.

When Twinkies hit the stores again on July 15, their shelf life will be nearly twice as long as it used to be: 45 days. (We were surprised it wasn't longer.) There's a whole lot of food science employed to help the creme-filled cake defy the laws of baked-good longevity.

Knowing everything there is to know about someone's financials is intrusive. So how did the tradition start — and why do we care?

"Tsunami" has been all over the news since a powerful earthquake sent a wall of water into northeastern Japan on March 11. It's a word that comes from Japan and dates from more than 1,000 years ago.

Another round of thunderstorms packing heavy rains has prompted flash flood warnings in Michigan's LowerPeninsula.The National Weather Service on Friday…