Metropolitan Detroit is getting a brand new baseball league. The United Shore Professional Baseball League is preparing for its inaugural season in the summer of 2016, and a big part of that is a new baseball stadium now under construction in Utica....
A new report says more children in Michigan are growing up in low-income households now than during the Great Recession, even though the state's unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in a decade. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, nearly...
The University of Michigan has just opened a brand-new testing facility for autonomous vehicles, or AVs. MCity will test the AV technology in a very realistic off-roadway environment, a key step before connected and automated vehicles and systems are...
Alarms are going off. People are checking gauges, trying to determine what's wrong. We're in a large simulator of a nuclear reactor control room at the DTE Energy Fermi 2 power plant on Lake Erie near Monroe. Employees are being trained to deal with...
People in Michigan are naturally concerned about the thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing the state. After all, Michigan suffered through the worst inland oil spill in U.S. history. And there's one pipeline in particular that people are quit...
The battle between Michigan's public universities and state lawmakers over funding has ramped up in recent weeks. Both Eastern Michigan University and Oakland University have busted state-imposed tuition caps, deciding that the state's reward for not...
It took years of negotiation and diplomacy to bring about today's historic deal between Iran and world powers. Iran has agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the easing of economic sanctions. Now, the White House has to sell this deal to...
The Motor City Blight Busters are developing Veteran's Village Center, which provides housing for veterans and the opportunity to work with their organization. The Center is currently under renovation. It's located in Northwest Detroit near other pro...
There are many stories about how going to war impacts individuals. But what about the impact of overseas service on families? As we continue our series, Beyond the Battlefield, meet a family whose members have fought battles overseas and back home as...
When Eric Thompson hit rock bottom, he really hit rock bottom. Like, fleeing-from-the-police-in-a-car-chase rock bottom. I wasn't scared, Thompson says of that night. I didn't have a plan. I was done. Seriously. I wanted to die. I just didn't want to...