Category Archives: Michigan News
Metro Detroit Holds Most Dangerous Intersections in Michigan
Nov. 18, 2025 ~ "'JR Morning" talks with Steve Gursten, head of Michigan Auto Law, to discuss their newly released Top 20 Most Dangerous Intersections in Michigan.DETROIT, MI ~ Metro Detroit is home t...
Nov 18, 2025
Ford Shows Off New 2.1 Million Square-Foot Headquarters
DEARBORN ~ For the first time in about 70 years, Ford Motor Co. workers have a brand new location to work from. A sprawling, 2.1 million square-foot building at four-floors high, the new Ford World He...
Nov 18, 2025 Photo: Andrew Mullin ~ 760 WJR
Westbound I-696 Construction Begins
METRO DETROIT ~ Westbound I-696 will be shut down from I-75 to Telegraph Road due to the next phase of road work starting on the freeway. Westbound traffic was shifted to the recently completed eastbo...
Nov 17, 2025 Photo: Ryan Garza ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
Dr. Phil Knight Joins WJR to Discuss How SNAP Disruptions Affecting MI Food Banks.
MICHIGAN ~ Food banks across the country, including here in Michigan, have seen drastic increases in people utilizing their services due to the federal government shutdown, causing a pause in federal ...
Nov 14, 2025 Michigan National Guard PFC Zachary Lucian tapes emergency food boxes shut at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan Hunger Solution Center in Flint on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The National Guard members are helping at several of the Food Bank Council of Michigan's seven regional food banks to cover fewer volunteers due to the stay-at-home executive order. The boxes, that feed 2-4 people, are to be distributed to 22 counties for drive-thru pickup.
Photo: Ryan Garza ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
Grand Rapids Comic Con Takes Place Nov. 14-16
GRAND RAPIDS ~ Nerds of Michigan can rejoice, as the Grand Rapids Comic Con is set for this weekend from Nov. 14-16 at the DeVos Place. The convention will feature media guests, cosplay, and an artist...
Nov 14, 2025
Michigan Father Whose Three Sons Went Missing 15 Years Ago Charged with Murder
LENAWEE COUNTY, MI ~ John Skelton, a Morenci, Michigan man whose three sons went missing in 2010, has been charged with counts of open murder and tampering with evidence. The charges came two weeks be...
Nov 14, 2025
Dan Gilbert, Jared Fleisher Preview Detroit's Riverfront Growth on WJR
DETROIT, MI ~ Detroit's riverfront is one step closer to booming after the city approved $75 million to join a $1 billion investment from Dan Gilbert and his real estate company Bedrock Wednesday. Gen...
Nov 13, 2025 Jan 3, 2024; Detroit, MI, USA; The Detroit river remains unfrozen with no ice forming on the shores of the Detroit riverfront on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Mandatory Credit: Kimberly P. Mitchell-USA TODAY NETWORK
Investments in Detroit Continue to Grow
DETROIT, MI ~ In 2013, bankruptcy left Detroit scarred. Since then, millions of dollars have been poured into the city's rehabilitation efforts. Downtown's second tallest building, Hudson's Detroit, i...
Nov 12, 2025 A six-story tall flag dons the Hudson’s office building photographed after a ribbon cutting for Nick Gilbert Way outside of the new Hudson’s buildings in Detroit on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025.
Photo: Mandi Wright ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
WJR Celebrates Veterans Day
DETROIT, MI ~ Veterans Day is a day to honor those who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Starting in 1919 as Armistice Day for World War 1 veterans, it was officially declared a federal h...
Nov 11, 2025 Tombstones of former military members are seen on Veterans Day at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan on November 11, 2020.
Photo: Ryan Garza ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
The Edmund Fitzgerald Sank 50 Years Ago
LAKE SUPERIOR ~ Monday, Nov. 10 is the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sinking, becoming a legendary tragedy for the Great Lakes region and forever immortalized in a folk rock song...
Nov 10, 2025 Photo: Mandi Wright ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
SPOTLIGHT PODCAST
Dec. 5, 2025 ~ John Bernia, superintendent of Warren Consolidated Schools, joins Marie Osborne to talk about the new report that says Michigan school students are showing progress in math.
Dec. 5, 2025 ~ Amanda Holm, senior project manager for Henry Ford Health’s Tobacco Treatment Service, joins Marie Osborne to discuss cigarette smoking and provides tips on how to kick the habit.
Dec. 5, 2025 ~ Shawn Wilson, president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, joins Chris Renwick and Lloyd Jackson to talk about USHER and Big Sean announcing an Entertainment Innovation Incubator coming to the new Michigan Central Boys & Girls Club. Photo: Junfu Han ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
