Prompted in part by the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle and its examination of the unsanitary conditions of the Chicago…

© Lane Erickson | Dreamstime.com By Stacy Gittleman Elizabeth Orozco-Or­ozco-Vasquez, executive director of Freedom House in Detroit,...

When the late Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson would eat out at Oakland County restaurants and other food institutions inspected

The debate over maintaining a secular environment in public schools as opposed to allowing the teaching of religious doctrine has taken on…

Sustainability is a broad concept among green thinking circles. At the individual level, it can be as simple and inexpensive as linking…

Most of the nearly 60 cadets training at Oakland Police Academy in Auburn Hills will have a job waiting for them at a local municipality…

Michigan prides itself on tourism from its natural beauty but some visitors are unwelcome. Invasive species, both plants and animals, have…

By Stacy Gittleman On the shores of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, just outside the JW Marriott Hotel, stands a five-ton,...

This summer, if you find yourself on a sandy shore, take a shovel and start digging. Chances are you will hit water. This science experiment

Michigan for decades has been the garbage receptacle of the Midwest. That has left Michigan with about a quarter century of space left in it