City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has been a career Democrat in the battleground state of Michigan but is now planning to run for governor as an independent.

The race for Detroit’s next mayor is set to pit a longtime City Council member against a popular pastor.

Detroit voters will take a key step toward choosing a new mayor in the municipal primary on Tuesday, when nine candidates will appear on the ballot in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

Eight years after President Donald Trump's first travel ban largely targeted majority-Muslim countries, many Arab Americans say his new ban is motivated by bias.

Democrat Gretchen Whitmer touted her accomplishments as Michigan's governor as she passes the midpoint of her second term and is continuously floated as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

A Michigan congressman is on a doomed mission to impeach President Donald Trump as he faces challenges at home in his Detroit-area district.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor in 2026 and sharing new anecdotes in her upcoming political memoir, “The Purposeful Warrior,” including her experience with miscarriage.

Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is launching a Republican bid for governor.

Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II is running to become the state's next Democratic governor.

A group has stepped forward in Detroit to provide a home for the surviving family members of two children who died in a cold van.

Authorities in Detroit are investigating the deaths of two children who likely froze to death in a van outside a casino.

Genesee County Chris Swanson has told The Associated Press he's launching a Democratic bid to be Michigan's next governor.

Rob “Lion Eyes” Gonzales stood on a swath of the turf from Pontiac Silverdome in his basement, sporting his signature shades with blue frames and leaping lions on silver lenses that obstruct his view.

Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction.

Michigan Democrats are charting their path forward after significant setbacks in the 2024 election.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a longtime Democrat, says he'll run for Michigan governor in 2026 as an independent because “there are a lot of people in this country who are tired of both” the Democratic and Republican parties.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is deep in campaign mode for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were plenty of people in her eastside Detroit neighborhood.

U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America's Northeast and Midwest cities are rebounding slightly from years of population drops, highlighted by modest growth in Detroit after decades of declines.

Police say a Detroit synagogue president has been found stabbed to death outside her home.

Detroit is suing the U.S. Census Bureau over population estimates from last year that show the city lost an additional 7,100 residents.

Google is joining Ford Motor Co.'s effort to transform a once-dilapidated Detroit train station into a research hub focused on electric and self-driving vehicles.

Yvonne Gibbs, 72, receives Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, Jan. 27, 2021, at the TCF Center in Detroit. Detroit recorded 431 confirmed COVID cases on March 30, 2020, and another 387 two days later, according to the city's Health Department. Detroit recorded 431 confirmed COVID cases on March 30, 2020, and another 387 two days later, according to the city’s Health Department. Virus testing was conducted at homeless shelters, too. Newly confirmed cases on July 1 numbered around 39, and health officials started seeing fewer daily deaths.

FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks in Detroit. Mayor Duggan this week turned down 6,200 doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, with favoring shots from Pfizer and Moderna for now. "Johnson & Johnson is a very good vaccine. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)LANSING, Mich. – Detroit this week turned down 6,200 doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, favoring shots from Pfizer and Moderna, but said Friday it will accept J&J doses in the state's next allocation. AdDetroit's 6,200 J&J doses went to health departments in counties with the lowest vaccination rates of people age 65 and up, state spokesman Bob Wheaton said.

DETROIT The city turned an island park into an extraordinary memorial garden Monday as cars packed with families slowly passed hundreds of photos of Detroit residents who died from COVID-19. Mayor Mike Duggan declared a Detroit Memorial Day to honor the 1,500-plus city victims of the pandemic. The memorial was designed to bring some peace to families whose loved ones didn't have the funerals they deserved, Riley said in opening remarks. Gretchen Whitmer said at Belle Isle. They werent finished yet.Detroit has roughly 7% of Michigan's population but 23% of the state's 6,400 COVID-19 deaths.

DETROIT – A Black man who was wrongly arrested after the use of facial recognition technology by Detroit police will have his DNA, fingerprints and mugshot removed from law enforcement files, officials said Friday. Robert Williams was the victim of “shoddy investigative work," police Chief James Craig said. Williams, 42, was arrested in January in front of his family at their home in Farmington Hills, a Detroit suburb. The ACLU, which opposes the use of facial technology by police, publicized Williams' case. He blamed it on “subpar” work by police and prosecutors but said the technology can be useful if handled properly.