Gibraltar News

Gibraltar students will see many changes when school starts Sept. 2. After 14 months of construction, the school will be wrapping up remodeling projects in the final days before the year starts.

It was about 1:30 a.m. Monday and Kent Sikora had been lying in bed since midnight.

Months of knocking on doors, walking neighborhoods and talking to potential voters will end Tuesday for many candidates whose names appear on primary election ballots.

Downriver voters will see Wayne County Commission candidates listed on Tuesday's ballot, but the outcome won't matter much as they are unopposed in the primary election.

The body of a former township businessman who disappeared while swimming in the Trenton Channel last week was found Friday.

Navy Seaman Recruit Ryan M. Simpson, a 2006 graduate of Carlson High School, Gibraltar, completed, with honors, U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.

The four trustee seats on the seven-member Grosse Ile Township Board of Trustees are up for election this year.

Eight candidates - five Democrats and three Republicans - are vying to win a two-year term to the 23rd District seat in the state House of Representatives.

FORREST CHAPMAN; 48; Sumpter Township; owns tree service and saw mill; Democrat; seeking 23rd District state House of Representatives seat; state certified auto and heavy trucks mechanic; attended Eastern ...

U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Nicholas J. Jager, a 2004 graduate of Carlson High School, Gibraltar, graduated May 21 with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the Coast Guard Academy in New ...

A group of Downriver businesswomen has provided 20 scholarships for local kids to learn good business practices and explore future career paths, at Exchange City and EarthWorks in Taylor.

Jerry Bronson had had enough. So the 29-year-old computer troubleshooter from Woodhaven ditched his gas-guzzling pickup truck in favor of an even bigger set of wheels for work -- a SMART bus that takes him ...

A Southgate man convicted in 2004 of killing two people and wounding three others after an argument at a Gibraltar bar will remain in prison.

The City Council plans to take control of some county roads. The 4-to-1 decision during last week's meeting to take control of Middle Gibraltar road east of Jefferson to Adams and North Gibraltar Road east of ...

Two police officers and two firefighters will be recognized today for saving the life of a choking woman.

A partial settlement was reached Monday on a lawsuit stemming from a tour boat accident three years ago that killed 20 people, including three from Trenton.

Allen Park: Elizabeth Ballantyne was named valedictorian. Ballantyne, 18, is the daughter of James and Penny Ballantyne of Allen Park.

The owner of Warren Steel Holdings LLC and investors have filed a lawsuit claiming they were denied the chance to buy another Warren steel mill - WCI Steel Inc.

A judge today denied a request to lower bond for four teens accused of participating in a mob attack on three people in Mount Clemens, and postponed their preliminary exam until Monday.

The Michigan Department of Transportation has decided to postpone the closure of the southbound U.S. 23 ramp to Plank Road, near Milan and Dundee, because of bad weather over the past several days.