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The Detroit Grand Prix has experienced many incarnations since its start in 1982, hosting three different circuits in two ...
When Detroit filed for bankruptcy in the summer of 2013, few would have believed that little over a decade later, the Motor City would come fighting back. But with the city facing record-setting ...
During 1960-1980, Detroit River surveys documented more than 4,500 common tern nests on Belle Isle and Mud, Grassy, Bob-Lo and Fighting islands. By 2005, no terns were nesting on these islands where ...
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Detroit Fire Department are searching for a person in the Detroit River on Halloween morning. It's at Belanger Park near Fighting Island, about 3.5 miles down river ...
It's at Belanger Park near Fighting Island, about 3.5 miles down river from the Ambassador Bridge. Around 4:30 a.m., there was a report of a person in the water. The Coast Guard and Fire ...
The island has a colorful history dating back to the 1920s when wealthy Detroit residents built mansions to have river access, according to a 2015 report in Curbed Detroit.
All right, young people throughout metro Detroit: I used to be your advocate. But now, I’m running out of patience with some of you. All of this fighting at summer events is just getting out of ...
THE DETROIT RIVER, Mich. — A pair of federal fish experts braced themselves as they cradled a hulking fish over the side of their boat just north of the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge.
The Gibraltar-based lake sturgeon team sets 700-foot lines targeting lake sturgeon throughout the Detroit River and checks them at least weekly through April and May. ... such as Fighting Island.