Labor Day

The 35th annual Detroit Jazz Festival is this Labor Day weekend. It is the largest free jazz festival in the world, and it will be held in downtown…

Machinists, teachers, police were among the many unionized workers to hit the streets of downtown Detroit Monday morning.The city’s annual Labor Day…

DETROIT (AP) - A call to raise the minimum wage has returned in the run-up to Labor Day.It's come in the form of worker rallies and a report finding…

AAA predicts that 1.2 million Michiganders will travel this Labor Day weekend. More than 90 percent will be driving. Gasoline prices took their usual…

This has been a below-average summer for wildfires in Michigan. Though parts of the Lower and Upper Peninsulas have been under a ‘high fire danger’…

As we prepare to mark the end of summer with Monday's Labor Day holiday, we wanted to take a look back at this holiday because its roots -- at least in…

(Editor's note: This story was originally published in July 2009)Neal Fisher thinks he’s an environmentally friendly kind of guy. He and his wife recycle,…

Once upon a time, it was an enormous deal whenever a President came to town. I know a woman who was a little girl of six in Pontiac sixty-three years ago,…

Speaking to union members and supporters at a Labor Day rally in Detroit, President Obama says his biggest concern is to “fully restore” the country’s…

I hope you are out on a boat listening to this. Or getting ready for a barbecue, or working in the garden, or doing something you feel like doing.…