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City shows plans for revamped Jefferson Chalmers

The city of Detroit is beginning to implement its plans paid for by the Strategic Neighborhood Fund

2019 Detroit Boat Show

NYC mayor: Amazon should have tried to win critics over

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MI Dream Home: French country manor has own helipad

Payless ShoeSource to shutter all of its remaining US stores

Amazon dumped NYC, but Warren, Windsor, others persist

Podcast: Howes on Michigan’s John Dingell

Electric pickup maker Rivian gets $700M from Amazon, others

Michigan car dealers worry about tariffs on imported cars

Back in the Bronx, Ocasio-Cortez says to keep up the fight

Ocasio-Cortez told about 300 cheering supporters gathered at a Bronx high school, “If people do not want to negotiate, that’s their problem, not ours.”

Politics

| 1 day ago

Podcast: Howes on Michigan’s John Dingell

Howes says Detroit’s auto industry has lost the best friend in Washington it probably ever had.

Daniel Howes

| 1 day ago

Judge rips sheriff’s deputies over stolen cars

Judge rules Nationwide Recovery, along with Wayne County Sheriff's deputies, delayed reporting recovered stolen vehicles.

Detroit

| 1 day ago

MI Dream Home: French country manor has own helipad

$5.9M estate includes Cape Cod home, two swimming pools, helipad and helicopter hangar

Real Estate

| 1 day ago

Amazon dumped NYC, but Warren, Windsor, others persist

The mayors of Windsor and Warren have called for Amazon to reconsider them for their HQ2 project

Business

| 1 day ago

Payless ShoeSource to shutter all of its remaining US stores

Payless ShoeSource is shuttering all of its 2,100 remaining stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico

Business

| 1 day ago

Michigan car dealers worry about tariffs on imported cars

Decision could come soon on Trump tariffs that could add $3,700 to the price of an imported car

Autos

| 2 days ago

U.S. seeks ways to recycle lithium batteries

Department of Energy is calling the effort a national security issue

Environment

| 2 days ago

How Michael Jordan became a brand

Michael Jordan intially laughed at “Air Jordan” name, hated the look of the shoe and almost skipped meeting with Nike.

Business

| 2 days ago

Electric pickup maker Rivian gets $700M from Amazon, others

Talks between GM and the Plymouth-Mich.-based carmaker are still ongoing, a person familiar with the negotiations said Friday

Mobility

| 2 days ago

Airlines to give customers ‘nonbinary’ gender choice

The gender option on airline sites will soon include choices such as “Mx.” or “undisclosed”

Business

| 2 days ago

Plans move forward for $10M soybean processing facility

Quality Roasting plans to construct a new plant to process raw soybeans into soybean meal and crude oil

Michigan

| 2 days ago

Photo Galleries

Hamtramck enjoys new influx of small businesses

MI Dream Home: Tawas City hideaway on 15 wooded acres

Women's March Michigan

Motown Museum celebrates 60th

More Photo Galleries

Amazon’s exit could scare off tech companies from NYC

Amazon jilted New York City on Valentine’s Day, scrapping plans to build a massive headquarters campus in Queens

Nation

| 2 days ago

Steel tariffs waived despite tough trade-talk

Hundreds of companies, including 37 in Michigan, have received steel-tariff exemptions, even as President Trump touts "America First" policy

Business

| 2 days ago

Howes: Amazon can’t get what it wants in NYC

On closer examination, at least one town that made it to the finals took a closer look and said, 'no thanks' to the online retail giant's HQ2 offer.

Daniel Howes

| 2 days ago

EPA outlines plan for toxic chemicals in water

Environmental Protection Agency officials said they will create new standards for PFAS contaminants in drinking water but didn't share a target level

Michigan

| 2 days ago

Columnists

Podcast: Howes on Michigan’s Dingell Daniel Howes

First-ever Silverado pace-truck leads Daytona 500 Henry Payne

Finley: A service worthy of an American hero Nolan Finley

Bankole: The rarity of Sen. John McCain’s politics Bankole Thompson

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Apartments planned for long-vacant Lee Plaza

180 residential units and retail are planned for the long-vacant tower near New Center

Detroit

| 2 days ago

Should Juul ads go the way of the Marlboro Man?

FCC member stops short of calling for ban on vaping ads

Business

| 3 days ago

Humbug holidays: US retail sales drop 1.2% in December

U.S. retail sales fell in December, delivering more evidence that last year’s holiday sales fizzled unexpectedly

Business

| 3 days ago

Amazon dumps NYC headquarters and its promised 25,000 jobs

Amazon said Thursday it does not plan to look for another location, and will continue to build out offices in Arlington, Virginia, and Nashville, Tennessee

Business

| 3 days ago

IRS: Average tax refund down 8.7% from year ago

The average refund paid in the second week of the filing season ended Feb. 8 was $1,949, down 8.7% from $2,135

Business

| 3 days ago

Ocasio-Cortez cheers Amazon’s NYC withdrawal

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cheered Amazon’s decision to scrap NYC campus plan as victory over ‘greed’

Politics

| 3 days ago

Market, restaurants planned for Royal Oak site

Woodward Corners — which once housed familiar names like Cunningham Drugs, Kroger and J.C. Penney — will include a hotel, restaurants and retailers

Oakland County

| 3 days ago

US jobless claims rise by 4,000 to 239K

Jobless claims are a proxy for layoffs. They are at low levels consistent with a healthy job market

Business

| 3 days ago

Residents of Ilitch-owned apartments feel squeeze

With purchase of another apartment building in shadow of Little Caesars Arena, Ilitch organization takes control of an entire square block

Business

| 3 days ago

Howes: GM leaders morph to meet tech challenge

Manufacturing, software, safety and cyber-security threats are converging on self-driving cars, presenting strategic and systems challenges.

Daniel Howes

| 3 days ago

Lawmaker: Amended pay, sick leave laws illegal

Sen. Stephanie Chang has asked Attorney General Dana Nessel for an opinion on the Legislature’s adoption and amendment of two 2018 ballot initiatives

Politics

| 3 days ago

Duggan pushes auto insurance rate cuts

Duggan urged lawmakers to fix Michigan’s auto insurance law, calling it a “morally indefensible” system that has produced sky-high rates.

Michigan

| 3 days ago

Is it love? Maybe not, as romance scams proliferate

The FTC says that romance-related scams have surged recently and generated more losses than any other consumer fraud reported to the agency last year

Business

| 3 days ago

Google to invest $13B in new US offices, data centers

Google said today it will invest more than $13 billion in building data centers and offices across the U.S in 2019.

Technology

| 4 days ago

San Morello adds lunch and brunch, plus more dining news and events

What’s happening on the Metro Detroit restaurant scene

Restaurants + Bars

| 4 days ago

US consumer prices flat in January

Consumer prices were unchanged as lower gasoline prices offset the rising costs of housing, clothing and medical care

Business

| 4 days ago

Smart devices hacked in digital home invasions

Smart-home devices like the Nest camera and thermostat are new frontiers in internet hacking

Business

| 5 days ago

IRS faces ‘tough decisions’ after shutdown

IRS watchdog says disruption raises possibility of delayed processing of tax returns and refunds

Business

| 5 days ago

GM, Amazon eye electric-truck maker Rivian

GM and Amazon are looking at buying a stake in Plymouth, Mich.-based builder of electric trucks

Mobility

| 5 days ago

N.Y. Gov. Cuomo to urge Trump to rethink tax changes

Cuomo: $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes is prompting wealthy residents to flee New York

Business

| 5 days ago

Cannelle Detroit is now open with French treats

The Capitol Park café is now open with coffee, sweets and breads

Restaurants + Bars

| 5 days ago

Powell doesn’t see elevated recession risks

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday he does not feel the probability of a recession “is at all elevated,”

Business

| 5 days ago

Shoes from Katy Perry line get blackface criticism

Katy Perry’s fashion line has pulled two types of shoes after some people compared them to blackface

Celebrities

| 5 days ago

Trump says he might not raise tariffs on China if deal close

President Donald Trump says if the United States and China are close to a trade deal, a March 2 deadline might slide

Business

| 5 days ago

Clash over drug prices could threaten NAFTA 2.0

Democrats contend the new pact would force Americans to pay more for prescription drugs

Politics

| 5 days ago

Job openings jump to record high of 7.3M

The Labor Department says job openings jumped 2.4 percent in December to 7.3 million

Business

| 5 days ago

Howes: In Dingell, autos lose best friend in DC

He understood with absolute clarity how idealism disconnected from business reality could imperil jobs, complicate engineering, drive costs higher.

Daniel Howes

| 5 days ago

Road builders, contractors in talks before construction season

A dispute between the two sides delayed dozens of projects around the state last year

Michigan

| 6 days ago

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