Wayne County Extends Foreclosure Deadline

   Wayne County officials are extending the deadline for homeowners to pay some or all of their property taxes and...

The Knight Foundation Announces Winners of its Cities Challenge

Marissa Gawel/WDET The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is awarding $600,000 dollars to projects designed to increase opportunity and...

Tax Foreclosures Make National Headlines As Wayne County Prepares To Foreclose on 70-thousand homes

Today (Tues) is the last day for Wayne County homeowners at risk of losing their homes due to unpaid back...

Thousands Rush To Meet Foreclosure Deadline

   In Detroit tens of thousands of people are facing a deadline today that could cost some of them their...

How is Federal Housing Money is Spent in Detroit?

The federal government provides $37 million annually to Detroit for housing programs that help stabilize life for people, according to Arthur Jemison.  As...

Feds Return Control Of Housing Commission To Detroit

   The US Housing and Urban Development Department is preparing to return control of the Detroit Housing Commission to city...

New Report: State Hampering DPS By Withholding Money to Pay Debt

WDET “It is just absolutely unfathomable and unacceptable for us as a community to allow the neediest children, the children who...

A History of Metro Detroit’s Extreme Tornadoes [TIMELINE]

The Palm Sunday tornadoes that ripped across Monroe and Lenawee Counties in 1965 packed winds estimated at 200 miles an...

Michigan Prepares To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak

Next week,  several communities throughout the Midwest will commemorate one of the worst tornado outbreaks in the nation’s history. On April...

New Dean Of UM Music, Arts, Theater: Students Need To Be Artists And Entreprenuers

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Aaron Dworkin, the founder of the Sphinx Organization, speaks with Stephen about his...

Henderson: Fear Grips Black Citizens Stopped By Police

Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson writes: My column in Sunday's Free Press was about the video tape released last week...

Spartans March To Another Final Four

Michigan State overcame an eight-point halftime deficit to beat Louisville 76-to-70 in overtime in the NCAA men's basketball tournament Sunday...