(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Skidmore, Michigan State University; Camila Alvayay Torrejon, Universidad ...

Detroit's abandoned Belle Isle Zoo is being demolished after 22 years. The Michigan DNR will restore the site to natural habitat with trails.

A man was injured in a fire at an abandoned church on Detroit’s west side early Monday morning. The fire erupted at a vacant church in the area of Grand River and Ohio just before 5 a.m. on Nov. 10.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950. In the ...