River Rouge News

Six-term U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick exchanged heated words with two Democratic primary rivals in a debate broadcast Sunday.

At the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Indiana, not far from where the Wright Brothers' nurtured dreams of flight, a huge birthday party is taking place for something else that changed the world.

As the state's Aug. 5 primary approaches, candidates for elected office are trying to sew up votes.

Six-term U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick exchanged heated words with two Democratic primary rivals in a debate broadcast Sunday.

In his bid for re-election to a third and final term in the state House of Representatives' 14th District, Edward Clemente has no challengers in the Democratic primary.

A 33-year-old River Rouge man was shot by police Wednesday afternoon when he allegedly attempted to run down an officer with his car.

Forget the hot dogs. The Jaycees are going for the spicy stuff. On July 18 the Wyandotte Jaycees, in conjunction with the Wyandotte Beautification Commission and Good Eats Cafe, will be raising money for the ...

Suddenly, it is not the customer who matters; it is the supplier. The stuff that arrives at the factory loading bay is now expensive; shortages and logistical logjams are playing havoc and the company that ...

After lengthy review and several community meetings, the Marathon refinery expansion project air quality permit has been granted.

A drug dealer directly connected to at least one of the fatal doses of fentanyl that plagued southeastern Michigan last year has been sentenced to 2 to 30 years in prison.

Music director Enrique Arturo Diemecke inherited a fine orchestra when he came to Long Beach six years ago.

A River Rouge man was sentenced today to serve 2 to 20 years in prison for selling fentanyl-laced heroine that was rumored to give an intense high, but instead killed a Riverview teen so fast that the needle ...

There is a fundamental transformation of business underway. Forged by digitization, ubiquitous connectivity, and globalization, this transformation will radically alter the very nature of the firm and how it ...

About 100 people who were denied jobs with the Detroit police and other city departments because they did not live within the city boundaries are soon expected to receive more than $5 million in damages in a ...

Fifty years ago, droves of people flocked to the shores of River Rouge, Mich., to witness the beginning of what would become the greatest tragedy on the Great Lakes.

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon on June 7th, 1958, as more than 10,000 people lined the banks of the Detroit River.

A ceremony is planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famed freighter that sunk in 1975 during a Lake Superior storm.

Idalyz Lozoya, a sixth-grader at Strong Middle School, used markers and crayons to do her part in raising awareness about the Rouge River.

The way a local city's animal shelter operates will soon be overhauled. Animal rights activists are criticizing the River Rouge Animal Shelter and expressed their outrage to city commissioners Tuesday evening.

One of the community's most outspoken residents has filed a lawsuit against the Police Department.