Sarah Rahal

The ordinance also revamps Detroit's escrow program so tenants have leverage to hold landlords accountable. City has received 11,000 complaints since 2022.

Elderly tenants are demanding improvements to the city's senior rental housing after they said their repeated complaints have been ignored.

Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head during a constituent event in Arizona in 2011, was in Michigan to urge support for Harris for president.

The first preservation plan of its kind, it aims to provide direction for future historic surveys and better tools for preserving significant structures.

The project is expected to be completed this year "as an important Inkster destination and place of learning in the community," officials said.

With a new donation from Comerica Bank, the nation's oldest aquarium will open an extra day in August.

City officials say the upgrades give an opportunity to reimagine with the riverside plaza could look like.

Michigan has 120 lighthouses, more than any other state in country. To help save these structures, there's the Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program.

As part of $1 million effort, new pedestrian safety measures have been installed in one of Dearborn's downtown areas, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said.

Engineering work has already started on the James Memorial Scott Fountain. Next year, work will begin on rehabilitating the lower bowl.