David L Porter

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is working on an agreement with groups in Canada to connect the developing “Great Lakes Way” tract of trails and waterways between Port Huron and Toledo to trails on the other side of the border through joint marketing — and potentially programming. The memorandum of understanding the Community Foundation is forging […]

Has the time finally come to clean up the toxic sediment in the Detroit River that remains as legacy pollutants from the peak industrial era? That’s approximately 3.5 million cubic yards of sediment, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A successful cleanup could lead to the river’s removal from a 1987 list of toxic

Major financial support is being invested into some of Michigan’s high-priority waterways, and the Detroit River is one of them. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters announced Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency is making a $1 billion commitment …

A dedicated group of American and Canadian activists, educators, and community members are advocating for the designation of the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario as an UNESCO World Heritage Site for its significance in the Underground Railroad. While the Detroit River was the lifeblood …

Authorities were baffled by a geological incident that caused the ground itself to buckle in Detroit’s Delray neighborhood last fall. On the night of Sept. 11,  the intersection of Dearborn and West Fort streets experienced a shifting of the ground that lasted approximately  35-minutes and left a roughly eight-foot-high mound of earth at one location.

Cruising down the Detroit River to Boblo Island is a fond memory held by older Detroiters. The island, located about 18 miles downriver, was home to an amusement park and often characterized as Detroit’s own Coney Island. However, Black folks were not always allowed to ride the famed Boblo boats.