Hamtramck News

Tucked into a Hamtramck neighborhood, a few blocks off the Joseph Campau strip, the Atlas Bar is efficiently anonymous.

Hamtramck and Wyandotte will get some help from the state in promoting their downtowns.

Barefoot Productions officials have announced their 2009/2010 season, unveiled a new logo and reduced ticket prices in an effort to encourage patrons to support local theatre.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater will ask patrons to pay what they can at 'MARVIN'night, today, Sunday June 28.

Boyga Adeseye made a safe bet that operating his new business out of the trunk of his car would appear, shall we say, less than professional.

Lawn maintenance will be a little more difficult for a small Farmington Hills church this summer after thieves broke into the church's shed and stole all the maintenance equipment.

It didn't take long for an entrepreneur to step up to fill the void left by the closure of The Citizen newspaper in Hamtramck.

Black Chevy Volt 2Enlarge PhotoAccording to the newsletter AutoBeat Asia, China will also be home to a production facility for the Chevy Volt's to be sold in the Chinese market.

Business opportunities big and small will be the topic of discussions this week, ranging from macro visions of urbanism to micro loans for small companies.

On June 23, Ferndale police identified a suspect in the burglary of Mayor Craig Covey's home as a man who has been charged with murder in Hamtramck.

A man suspected of breaking into Ferndale Mayor Craig Covey's home on April 17 is jailed in a separate murder investigation, police said Tuesday.

But that hardly matters, because it's so delightful to listen to "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" again and again that such trifles as needing to pull one's car out would hardly matter.

Born in Bayonne, N.J. and raised in Royal Oak, photographer Donna Terek -- nicknamed "Turk" -- lives and works in the city of Detroit.

Almost everything in the store is marked down -- including furniture, lighting, accessories, tabletop and office accessories.

The Hamtramck mother whose 4-year-old said she cooked her in an oven 'like a turkey' has been committed to a psychiatric hospital, declared not guilty by reason of insanity by a Wayne County court.

A noon deadline passed Friday with no one returning any of the $160,000 missing from an armored car that lost a load of cash on Interstate 75 on Thursday.

Just give us back the money. That's the message being sent by Loomis, a Texas-based security company that lost at least $125,000 when bags of cash tumbled from the back of one of their armored cars on southbound Interstate 75 on Thursday morning.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 7, 2009 Contact: Diane Feeley Telephone Number: 313-843-2125; 734-272-7651 Email Address: feeleyd@earthlink.net Websites: http://www.autoworkercaravan.org http://www.peoplessummit.org Press Conference to Announce a June 16 "Rally for Jobs" at the Renaissance Center targeting American Axle CEO Dick Dauch, ex-Michigan ...

Hamtramck has its share of wonderful dive bars, but THC adds something different to the mix.

An eyesore that straddles the Detroit-Hamtramck border could see new life in the next year.