New Apartments Coming to Lafayette Park

user: Mikerussell/ CC Developers will break ground on a new apartment complex in Detroit’s Lafayette Park in June.  Plans for DuCharmes...

Senator Debbie Stabenow and Alzheimers

U.S. Department of Agriculture Join WDET host Stephen Henderson and Michigan’s Senior Senator Debbie Stabenow for a conversation about the...

State Urges Vigilance for Bird Owners to Prevent Spread of Avian Flu

Photo Credit | Kusabi (FLICKR) There has been an increase in cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza since the end...

Debbie Dingell Rallies With TSA, Demand More Security

Bre'Anna Tinsley/ WDET Transportation Security Officers and the American Federation of Government Employees are asking to beef up security at...

The Kresge Foundation Awards $1.6 Million to Community Projects

The Kresge Foundation is funding more than $1.6 million dollars’ worth of community projects in Detroit. Foundation CEO Rip Rapson...

Homeland Security Officials, Volunteers Prepare For Tornado Season

   This weekend Detroiters will be greeted by a sound generated every first Saturday of the month: A tornado warning...

Downtown, Midtown Growing, But the Market’s ‘Not Yet Driving Itself’

Compared to the rest of the city, the centralized 7.2 square miles of Detroit have a greater density of people...

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...

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...