For the third consecutive year, Henry Ford College (HFC) earned selection to the 2015 Military Friendly Schools ® list by Victory Media, the definitive media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life.More

A new documentary short from the Less=More sustainable agriculture coalition explores how the purchase of food from local Michigan farmers who use healthy, sustainable practices has a greater benefit to local economies, the environment and public health than products from conventional industrial agriculture. More

As the owners of the Detroit Red Wings construct not just a new arena, but an entire city district, naturally there will have to be places for new residents to live.More

Espy Thomas knows what it takes to be a food entrepreneur.

“I’ve been doing this since I was five years old,” she says about her work at Sweet Potato Sensations, a business she co-owns with her parents and her sister. Together, the Thomas family has been making sweet potato-based products in Detroit’s Old Redford neighborhood since Espy’s parents founded their business in 1987.More

Thousands of walruses have been forced onto an Alaska beach because of disappearing sea ice, and the Federal Aviation Authority has rerouted flights to avoid startling them and creating a deadly stampede.More

EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) and Microsoft Corporation are celebrating the ground breaking of the Pilot Hill Wind Project located 60 miles southwest of Chicago in Kankakee and Iroquois counties. The project benefits from a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft, which advanced the project by providing the long-term revenue certainty needed to get Pilot Hill off of the ground and into construction.More

Individuals living or working in Macomb, Oakland or Wayne Counties and whose employment was lost or interrupted due to the severe storms and flooding on August 11-13, 2014, may be eligible for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA).More

The Department of Natural Resources has announced that its Dam Management Grant Program is now open for proposals. The third year of this grant opportunity will provide $350,000 in fiscal year 2015 to address Michigan’s failing dam infrastructure through the funding of dam removals and critical repair/maintenance.More

Committed to protecting Lake Erie and the sustainability of our region’s drinking water supplies, the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) has agreed to form a working group to spur action on developing and refining practices, programs and policies to achieve pollutant reduction targets and protect water quality.More