Nancy Derringer

Detroit is planning big changes to a little neighborhood near Belle Isle. Some wonder who will benefit.

City Hall has spent four years demolishing hundreds of homes in this northeast neighborhood. Many more remain.

In one of city’s most self-reliant neighborhoods, City Hall plans improvements as old brick homes get new owners.

Once steamy and seedy, a North End sauna has booted the swingers and is investing big money in rehab work. Can it be a Detroit spa destination?

Drinking and football are often synonymous. But they don’t have to be dangerous. Use these 10 tips to avoid big trouble.

Detroit’s middle class is shrinking and poverty remains rampant, but neighborhoods are stabilizing, a new report shows.

The city’s neighborhoods are still in need of many improvements, but they’re getting striped set-asides for cyclists. Transportation evolution or an amenity for the few?

Jobs will undoubtedly be lost to artificial intelligence, and others gained. The trick will be to craft policy to help as many people who lost jobs to find new ones.

Spoiler alert: Use your head. It’s still better than a robot’s.

Enrollment in teacher-prep programs is falling nationwide, and by more than 50 percent in Michigan colleges and universities. Why the classroom is losing its appeal.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is moving to reverse Obama policies in federal prosecutions that he views as soft on drugs. Doing so, though, could increase costs. A similar tough-on-crime approach in Michigan would reverse years of inmate declines.

While everyone would feel the impact of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, some are more vulnerable than others. Almost one in 10 Michigan residents have health insurance either through Obamacare individual plans or through Medicaid expansion. See how many in your county would be affected.

More kindergartners get their shots after the state made it harder to receive a waiver for them. Now, two lawmakers want to go back to the old system, but health officials say doing so is an invitation to trouble.

An African-American businessman dreamed of a place where people of color could live and boat on the river, in the shadow of high-rise luxury. It never happened.

A budget deal granted a reprieve to a popular Great Lakes program. But rivers, lakes and air could still be at risk, environmentalists warn.

Two writers discuss gentrification. One sees inequality. The other, glimmers of hope.

New book argues City Hall is picking winners and losers. And longtime residents are out of luck.

Scholar argues that neighborhoods thrive when rich and poor live together.