Final week to vote for Detroit’s best unsigned musicians

Vote to decide who should play at WDET's Sounds Like Detroit concert August 11 at New Center Park.

Detroit Evening Report: Hamtramck City Council votes to ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags from city property

The Hamtramck City Council has banned LGBTQ+ flags from being displayed on city property. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report...

CultureShift: Why is dating so hard for Black women in Detroit?

The City of Detroit ranks among one of the worst places to date in the country, especially for Black women....

Michigan Fashion Week celebrates local designers in Metro Detroit

Michigan Fashion Week has been around for 11 years and features emerging and established designers, photographers, artists and models in...

Detroit Today: Legislation in Lansing aims to bring back net metering

A new bill currently in the Michigan Senate proposes to reintroduce net metering — a billing mechanism that pays residents...

Detroit Today: How Canadian wildfires are creating air pollution in Michigan 

Meteorologists with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy recently issued air quality alerts. This is due to...

Crossing the Lines: Live6 planners play the long game

This story is part of WDET’s Crossing the Lines: Live6 series, exploring the neighborhoods around the intersection of Six Mile...

Detroit Evening Report: Detroit City Council passes ordinance requiring businesses to accept cash

Detroit businesses that refuse to take cash payments may start facing fines. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple...

Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documents at Florida estate

MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty...

Detroit Today: The importance of expanding access to healthcare in Detroit

In Michigan, residents of Wayne County and Detroit have disproportionately poorer health outcomes than their counterparts in the surrounding suburbs....

Detroit Today: Black Americans have lower life expectancies than others

Through the COVID-19 pandemic up to March 2021, Black Americans died at 1.4 times the rate of white Americans. Overall,...

MichMash: Recapping the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference

This year's Mackinac Policy Conference focused a lot on collaboration and innovation to fix Michigan's stagnant population growth. WDET’s host...