It's a new era for the city of Detroit and for Mary Sheffield, the youngest person ever elected to the Detroit City Council and the city's youngest city council president. Now, Sheffield is the first ...

Detroit City Council began a new year with new members Tuesday in their first regular session after electing James Tate and Coleman A. Young II as council president and president pro-tem during a ...

The techno world could save Detroit from his economic problems. BERLIN -- When Berlin club owner Dimitri Hegemann first visited Detroit in the 1990s, he was struck by city’s decaying, decadent ...

On a temperate April night, Detroit was buzzing. The historic Detroit Athletic Club—long a favorite for family celebrations—was fully booked. At the Detroit Opera House, director Yuval Sharon’s ...

Almost 13 years after a poll showed two-thirds of Detroiters felt the city was moving in the wrong direction, a new survey found a dramatic turnaround in how ...

It’s a cliche that always feels true in this city, where each year can bring a new crisis, layered atop the problems we haven’t quite solved. This year, Detroiters will elect a new mayor for the first ...