Southwest Detroit

A water transmission main broke in Detroit’s Southwest neighborhood early Monday. Detroit officials say the city will help pay to repair homes. Crews worked to reduce flooding and help people get out of flooded homes.

Southwest Detroit students skipped school as part of a national demonstration, Day Without Immigrants. Then, Windsor's mayor explains the city's changing relationship with Detroit in wake of Trump's tariff increase.

Environmental activists and residents are pushing for air quality monitors in some of Southwest Detroit's most polluted neighborhoods. We checked in on their progress. We also revisit a conversation with the late Greg Harden, a mentor to some of University of Michigan's top athletes.

The new monitoring system keeping Detroiters and others in Wayne County aware of what’s in the air. Also, a new security system at Eastern Michigan University looks to AI to identify gun incidents on campus. And learning to sit quietly in your own skin - with nothing on. What two Michiganders learned taking on a side job posing for life drawing classes.

An Oxford High School shooting survivor reacts to ruling that the shooter is eligible to be sentenced to life without parole, then a Southeast Michigan eatery that focuses on Peruvian foods. And the strong connections between residents and the businesses in Southwest Detroit.

Oxford School shooter could serve life without parole, the Moth story slam does porch pop-ups, a great Detroit Tiger player with a bad legacy, sheep helping solar fields and a conversation with a Southwest Detroit muralist.

The city has filed a lawsuit calling the site “blighted, illegally occupied, unsafe and/or dangerous as a public nuisance and danger to the safety and welfare of the public.” It seeks a court ruling for the defendant-owners to clean up the property at their own expense, or risk having the city do it for them—and possibly seizing the property.

The deal would give the Detroit International Bridge Company, which owns the Ambassador Bridge, a piece of vacant land on Jefferson Avenue near the bridge. In return, the company would give the city $2 million to upgrade Riverside Park.

A partnership between El Central and the Race and Justice Reporting Initiative promotes Spanish language local news for residents in Southwest Detroit.

On today's show, environmental concerns in the U.P., a look back at decade old Detroit development, converting old K-marts for curling, and a news collaboration brings local coverage to Spanish speakers.