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The Michigan Strategic Fund approved incentives Wednesday to help renovate a vacant historic office building in Detroit's Capitol Park district into apartments for the fast-growing downtown residential scene.

Dangerously Delicous Pie's savory chicken pie contains chunks of hand-pulled, house-roasted chicken, sliced red skin potatoes, pan-fried corn and green peas.

On the latest episode of Detroit Public Television's 'American Black Journal,' Free Press Editorial Page Editor Stephen Henderson talks about a new nonprofit that is helping connect Detroit job-seekers and employers, and also the Bal Africain, a gala at the Detroit Institute of Arts that supports African and African-American art at the museum.

Two children and a woman in her 20s ware pulled today from their burning home in Detroit, three days after someone threw a Molotov cocktail at the house, according to investigators.

The former United Way building at 1214 Griswold was bought earlier this year. The state approved a $6 million loan for the historic building.

Cristina Aldana recently opened Las Cazuelas after running two successful Mexican spots in gas stations.

Michigan U.S. Rep. Gary Peters has taken to the House floor to criticize the storage of large piles of an oil-refining byproduct known as petroleum coke along the Detroit River.

Devin: HIS CARRY-ON WAS LOADED! AND MAN ARRESTED AT THE CLEVELAND AIRPORT WAS MINUTES FROM BOARDING A FLIGHT TO DETROIT.

DETROIT, MI - It's techno week in Detroit and the birthplace of the music will celebrate this holiday weekend with the Movement Electric Music Festival.

Two days into disaster relief efforts following the Moore, Okla., tornado, Metro Detroiters are increasingly mobilizing with fundraising, supply donations and at least one caravan of volunteers who are planning a cross-country road trip to aid in rebuilding.

That is the unlikely message Detroit Police Officers Association union President Mark Diaz has for Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, the man who wields the power to strike down union agreements at his whim.

A vacant commercial building fire sent smoke and debris flying over the bridge on I-75 in Southwest Detroit.

A Royal Oak-based film crew is visiting West Michigan this week to get footage for a Grand Rapids-specific Pure Michigan travel marketing commercial that airs June 3. "It's a very fast turnaround," said Michelle Begnoche, spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's marketing arm.

It's a three-story pile of black petroleum coke that could cover an entire city block and it's the by-product of oil sands bitumen drilling in Alberta, Canada.

The region's Wayne County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority has received a $600,000 federal grant that will be used to assess more than 30 sites around Detroit that have been impacted by contaminants from commercial industrial uses.

Police are looking for a man who they say abducted, robbed and sexually assaulted a woman who was trying to help another person in the city's east side.

The focus for severe storms will shift eastward into the Ohio Valley on Wednesday, bringing the threat for damaging winds, hail and heavy rainfall.

Some plastic containers burst into flames, sending plumes of black smoke into the air in Windsor near the Detroit River.

When Kevin Saunderson, along with his Belleville, Mich. buddies Derrick May and Juan Atkins all but invented the genre of techno music in the mid-'80s, the idea that he might be one of the most respected electronic musicians in the world - that he'd be one of the main attractions at a Detroit festival attracting people from all over the world and ... (more)

Moby used to play in a hardcore punk band called the Vatican Commandos, and then a post-punk band called AWOL.