March 11, 2017: MIles Davis, Sonny Stitt, and Jimmy Smith

Will Detroit’s East Riverfront Soon Look Like This?

Laura Weber Davis/WDET Detroit’s riverfront has come a very long way in the last decade. Even more upgrades to the...

Trump’s Michigan Co-Chair Spars Over Week’s News with Stephen Henderson

Jake Neher/WDET This week President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims that President Barack Obama’s administration had wiretapped his home in...

Detroit Opens Four Warming Centers

Detroit is opening four warming centers for residents looking to escape the cold.  Wednesday’s windstorms left nearly 100,000 city residents...

“I’ll Be The Phantom of the Opera,” Says Retiring Michigan Opera Theatre Founder David DiChiera

Jake Neher/WDET The Michigan Opera Theatre brings its programming to the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Twp....

State Treasury Warns Against Telephone Tax Scams

Glenn White has seen some strange things around tax time at the Michigan Department of Treasury. A few years ago,...

Friday School Closings [LIST, MAP]

Click on the point on the map to see closure information for that school district. The Detroit Public Schools Community...

Detroit Public Schools Community District Closings [MAP]

The Detroit Public Schools Community District reports the following schools are closed today: Adult Ed West, Ann Arbor Trail, Bow, Breithaupt,...

Poetry Slam Champ: YaKuZa Moon Claims Citywide Title [POEMS]

Martha Dawson With poems about Navajo reservation life and the events of Detroit in 1967, 17-year-old YaKuZa Moon won the 2017 Detroit Youth...

Without Power? Homeowners Being Warned to Keep Portable Generators Outside

Power outages across Southeast Michigan mean many homeowners are relying on portable generators or other alternative heat sources. That is...

Snyder Wants to Create Permanent Lead Commission

Amber Neher Gov. Rick Snyder will create a commission this week that has the mission of tackling the problem of...

Will Healthcare Overhaul Pass and What Would It Mean For Michiganders?

WDET/Laura Herberg After months of wondering whether Republicans could come up with something to replace Obamacare, we have our answer. GOP...