Laura Herberg is a civic life reporter for Outlier Media, telling the stories about people inhabiting the Detroit region and the issues that affect us here.

Listeners Ask, Why Does DTW Have Those Giant Fans?

CuriosiD is a regular series where listeners pose questions to the WDET staff, who then investigate the answers. See past...

US Census Analysis: Which Michigan Cities Grew And Shrank Since 2010?

Today, the US Census Bureau released detailed population estimates for 2018, an indicator for how the all-important (and already controversial)...

Four Tips on Appealing Your Property Tax Assessments

In Detroit, property owners are mailed letters in January that say how much the city has assessed their properties at....

New Regional Fare Passes for Detroit Area Buses Start Today

The Detroit area's two bus systems, Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) and Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART), are...

Canton’s English Language Learners Find Support and Community with Local Nonprofit

A group of people from Albania, Japan and Taiwan are reading grocery ads from a newspaper with the help of...

Canton Community Foundation Aims to Address Chronic Loneliness

Jerome Vaughn Beth Meade is the president of the Canton Community Foundation. She says one day she was working with...

Highland Park Opens First Bar in Decades [PHOTOS]

As WDET previously reported, it's been decades since anyone can remember a bar in Highland Park. That is changing tonight...

Nature Continues to Disappear in Canton

Canton resident Dick Dionne turns off of Warren Avenue and onto a Ridge Road. The narrow, gravel thoroughfare passes the...

Highland Park City Council Adopts Resolution to Support Green New Deal

The Highland Park City Council adopted a resolution in support of the Green New Deal at its city council meeting...

A Detroit Woman is Teaching People in Brooklyn How to Buy Real Estate in Detroit

Asia Denson stands in front of a group of people in a conference room at a Hilton Hotel in Brooklyn,...

Detroit Bus to Airport More Than One Year Old

WDET/Laura Herberg In the age of Uber and Lyft, it might seem like transit service to the airport doesn’t matter...

Detroit Property Owners Have More Time to Appeal Proposed Assessments [Transcript]

Detroit residents were supposed to have from Feb.1-15 to appeal proposed assessments, but the city recently extended the deadline to...