40 years later, Jimmy Hoffa mystery endures. Most of the people investigators suspect of knowing the truth have died.

A nonprofit rescue group has secured licensing to operate the first no-kill animal shelter in Detroit’s history — a certification it says could help ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed animal control office.

In the early morning hours of July 23, 1967, one of the worst riots in U.S. history breaks out on 12th Street in the heart of Detroit’s predominantly African-American inner city. By the time it was quelled four days later by 7,000 National Guard and U.S. Army troops, 43 people were dead, 342 injured, and nearly 1,400 buildings had been burned.

A number of cars caught fire in a parking lot outside of Comerica Park Sunday afternoon.

It’s an abrupt end for an expansive career.

So Mike Babcock is leaving the land of long-term success with the Detroit Red Wings for a ton of a money.

Rotting theaters and schools. Feral houses overgrown with green vines. Former auto plants coated with char and graffiti. Aerial views of the Detroit city limits dividing tidy rows of houses in the suburbs from abandoned lots in the city. There’s a reason that photos like these go viral on the Internet. The physical devastation of Detroit must be seen to be believed. But it’s hard to grasp the prevailing narrative that Detroit is a lost cause when you meet the people in it.

You can learn a lot about a place by seeing it from the air. I’m a pilot and an aerial photographer; I am also trained as an architect. I’ve always been interested in how the natural and constructed worlds work together, and sometimes collide. Issues like income inequality also reveal themselves quickly from above, and in Detroit and the surrounding area, the stark contrast between the haves and the have-nots couldn’t be more apparent.

In watching the illicit attempts of dealers and U.S. auto companies to try to kill Tesla, I have to think they are all wrongheaded. I don't drive a Tesla, but this kind of thing makes me really mad because it is so incredibly stupid. Tesla is as much an idea as it is a company -- and an idea that should be flowing through the car industry anyway, because the world is changing.

Three million dollars can barely buy a new townhouse in Brooklyn these days, but it could be enough to purchase a bundle of more than 6,000 foreclosures up for auction in Detroit.

When you talk about human rights, not to mention human necessities, there’s not much more fundamental than water. The United Nations has even put it in writing: it formally “recognizes the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.”

Dan Gilbert's billion-dollar makeover of Detroit is more than just corporate do-goodism run amok. It's the most ambitious human resources project in the history of American business.

More than 15,000 households have had their taps turned off for being past due. Yet the bankrupt city hasn’t touched 40 businesses who owe $9.5 million in total.

Economists fret that Detroit, in the absence of the manufacturing economy that built it, no longer has any reason to be. And indeed, large chunks of the sprawling, 139-square-mile city have literally vanished: Of Detroit’s 380,000 properties, some 114,000 have been razed, with 80,000 more considered blighted and most likely in need of demolition.

A 12-year-old Detroit boy who went missing for a dozen days before turning up in his own basement is out of the hospital but hasn't been allowed to see his father and stepmother, police said Thursday. Charlie Bothuell V was evaluated by doctors Wednesday night after he was found in a shared...

Detroit has too much of some things – stray dogs, abandoned houses – and not enough of others, such as residents who pay their water bills. The latest sign of Detroit’s decline came from the city’s water department, when it said in March it would begin shutting off water for up to 3,000 homes and businesses a week in an attempt to stop the utility from sliding even further into debt.

In the spring, Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr ordered water shutoffs for 150,000 Detroit residents late on their bills. Orr is an unelected bureaucrat accountable only to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed Orr and several other “emergency managers” in largely poor, black communities like Detroit, Benton Harbor, Flint, and Highland Park, to make all financial decisions on behalf of local elected governments.

The Detroit population has declined so dramatically that the city has been left with a vast number of blighted properties. A new $850 million plan would destroy about 85,000 of them.