River Rouge News Archives

Students from Thurston High School's Video Production and Environmental Science classes are getting a first-hand look at how scientists assess the health of rivers.

Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge complex has become a hotly contested battlefield as the United Auto Workers and union dissidents square off over proposed contract changes.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has appointed a 7-member financial review team to examine the City of River Rouge's finances, according to the state Treasury Department today.

River Rougea s Fire department says paving asphalt is what caused a fire this morning at the Michigan Marine Terminal.

River Rouge -- Environmental officials determined Tuesday there is no dangerous fallout from an industrial fire that broke out earlier that day.

A thick band of smoke reaching from southwest Detroit across the Detroit River to Windsor's westside and areas of LaSalle, Ontario, Tuesday October 20, 2009.

Firefighters have put out a large fire that burned near several oil storage tanks in River Rouge.

Black smoke could be seen for miles when a fire broke out Tuesday morning at the Michigan Marine terminal, near the BP terminal, on Marian Street in River Rouge.

An industrial fire is sending thick, black smoke into the air southwest of Detroit.James Buford, Wayne County's director of homeland security and emergency management, says the fire began around 9 a.m. Tuesday at a steel plant.Buford says fire crews from Detroit and surrounding communities were responding to the fire.River Rouge police didn't have ...

Andre Spivey took a look around the southwest Detroit neighborhood at Ann Arbor Trail and Warren, near River Rouge Park, and saw manicured lawns, clean streets, children's toys and bicycles on the side of homes.

ST VINCENTS basketball team, Killarney, have been strengthened by the addition of two American basketball players who played their first game for the club in early October 1979.

Top UAW leaders called on rank-and-file members Tuesday to approve a tentative agreement reached with Ford Motor Co., saying concessions are necessary to keep the automaker competitive.

It was on November 7, 2007 when Daniel Sorenson, a 26 year-old River Rouge man died from multiple stabbings and then dismembered by Jean Pierre Orlewicz, 18, of Canton, Michigan who admitted to the crime and then sentenced to first-degree murder.

A poplar tree stands atop the historic Lafayette Building in the heart of Detroit.