As Detroit city leaders weigh new ways to boost revenue, the Citizens Research Council of Michigan is publicly releasing estimates on what a local sales tax could bring in.

DETROIT - Once known as one of, if not America’s most dangerous city, Detroit is now reporting historically low major crime numbers. Compared to two and three decades ago, homicides, non-fatal shootings and car jackings are at historic lows and major crimes numbers are significantly lower than they were in just the last few years.

Mayor names city's first-ever Chief Executive of Health, Human Services and Poverty Solutions, director of Human, Homeless and Family Services.

The Rev. Horace Sheffield III may be the most prominent — and is almost certainly the most proud — father in Michigan. If the name sounds familiar, it should: His daughter, Mary, just became the first woman elected mayor of Detroit in our fair city's ...

It was a historic day in the Motor City on Friday as Mary Sheffield was publicly sworn in as Detroit's first woman mayor,

With talk around making Detroit less reliant on property tax revenues, a new report finds that Michigan’s largest city could generate as much $72 million annually with a local 1% sales tax.

Murders in Detroit continue to tumble as the city recorded its lowest number of criminal homicides since at least the early- to mid-1960s

Motor City Brewing Works, a midtown Detroit beer establishment that bills itself as the home of its best-known label the Ghettoblaster, announced this week on its website it is closing — perhaps just temporarily — its taproom next month. The brewery said it is pausing to "figure out what comes next."