Category Archives: Michigan News
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
FAA Cuts Flights at Detroit Metro Airport Due to Government Shutdown
WASHINGTON D.C. ~ The Detroit Metro Airport is among 40 airports across the nation where the FAA is currently cutting flights due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. Now in its 36th day, the s...
Nov 07, 2025 Photo: David Rodriguez Munoz ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
Mayor-Elect Mary Sheffield Joins WJR to Discuss Election Win
DETROIT ~ Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield won a historic election Tuesday evening, becoming the first woman to be elected as mayor of Detroit. She joined "Focus with Paul W. Smith" to discuss her big win a...
Nov 06, 2025 Mary Sheffield, a Detroit mayoral candidate and current city council president representing District 5, poses for a portrait at the Detroit Association of Black Organizations headquarters in Detroit on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025.
Photo: Kimberly P. Mitchell ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
Three More U-M Scholars Arrested in Biological Sample Smuggling Investigation
ANN ARBOR ~ Three more Chinese scholars at the University of Michigan were charged Tuesday on suspicion of smuggling potentially dangerous biological material into the United States and lying to feder...
Nov 06, 2025
SPOTLIGHT PODCAST
Dec. 12, 2025 ~ David Sowerby, the managing director and portfolio manager at Ancora Bloomfield Hills, joins Kevin Dietz to discuss how President Donald Trump and a divided board are to pick a new Fed chair.
Dec. 12, 2025 ~ U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar (MI-13) joins Kevin Dietz to discuss the articles of impeachment against RFK and Pete Hegseth.
Dec. 12, 2025 ~ Dr. Tim Nash, senior vice president emeritus and director of the Northwood University Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, joins Chris Renwick and Jamie Edmonds to discuss the monthly trade deficit falling to its lowest in five years following the imposition of sweeping global tariffs.
