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A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.
Most of those who completed job retraining during the first 18 months of Michigan's No Worker Left Behind program either kept their jobs or gained new employment, according to a state review.
Details released Thursday about the two most recent annual inspection reports on the Ambassador Bridge indicate the 80-year-old international span was structurally sound but had cracked concrete, rusted railings and corrosion.
A woman accused of starving her adopted quadriplegic daughter and stashing the 9-year-old's body in a storage unit must stand trial on charges including murder, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Governors from across the Midwest are working together to promote clean energy industry and infrastructure in the region despite heated competition between their states for new investment and jobs.
A judge has heard closing arguments in the penalty phase of a civil trial against the former head of Kmart Corp., who was found liable of misleading investors eight years ago.
A man found to have more than 100 live dogs and 150 dead ones in his Detroit-area home was charged Thursday with animal cruelty.
In a neighborhood served by 26 liquor stores but only one grocery, a community group is peddling fresh fruits and vegetables like ice cream.
Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.
A batch of trees soon to be planted on a wild, overgrown patch of land near a Detroit neighborhood is expected to be a step toward bringing back a vibrant, green canopy to the Motor City.
Detroit Public Schools would close 23 schools and lay off 600 teachers in a proposal released Thursday that would consolidate facilities in a shrinking district facing a projected $303 million deficit.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art is staking a claim as an academic and community center for the arts with a $41.9 million expansion and renovation of its home in the heart of campus.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s sleeker, more fuel-efficient update to its iconic Prius goes on sale this spring in a market growing more crowded with competing hybrids and battered by the global financial crisis.
Chinese automakers looking to make the jump to the key U.S. market are facing increasingly strong headwinds, including a global financial crisis that has slowed growth where they already sell cars and sapped the potential for partnerships that would ease their expansion.
Crews were working to restore electricity to nearly 200,000 Michigan homes and businesses early Monday, a day after strong winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines, while residents in parts of the Northwest braced for another winter storm.
The man who will take over as mayor in the wake of Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation said Thursday that he'll ramp up efforts that began months ago to prepare him to lead the nation's 11th-largest city.
Borders Group Inc. will sell its businesses in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to fellow book retailer A&R Whitcoulls and private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners for as much as $104 million.
Borders Group Inc. says it is cutting nearly 275 corporate positions as part of a plan announced last week by the nation's second-largest bookseller to reduce annual expenses by $120 million.
Borders Group Inc. is returning to online retailing after seven years paired with Amazon.com, but analysts say it will be a challenge for the nation's second-largest bookseller to compete with established Web retailers.
General Motors Corp.'s stock dropped almost 5 percent Friday after the company reported that strikes at some of its own plants and parts supplier American Axle will cost the automaker about $2 billion before taxes in the second quarter.
If smoking is banned in Detroit bars, restaurants and workplaces, Betty Gilbert says it will hurt the city's casinos.
The Tibetan people need the involvement of the U.S. government to help resolve recent conflicts between Chinese officials and anti-Beijing protesters in Tibet, the Dalai Lama said Monday.
Chrysler LLC's chairman and CEO said Thursday night that he's open to more partnerships like one announced this week expanding the automaker's car- and truck-building alliance with Nissan Motor Co.
Borders could become the latest victim of the credit squeeze, announcing Thursday that it may put itself up for sale. Rival Barnes & Noble, meanwhile, saw fourth-quarter profits drop 9 percent as the industry struggles with intense competition from discounters.
Borders, the nation's second-largest bookseller, said Thursday it may put itself up for sale and that it has lined up $42.5 million in financing to help the chain continue operations.
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