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General Motors (NYSE: GM) said Tuesday it will add 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years to significantly expand its vehicle electrification expertise
The first Chevrolet Volt available for retail sale will be offered at public auction with the proceeds benefitting math and sciences education in the Detroit Public Schools.
It's all about making Michigan communities "great places" to work and live. That's what organizers of the Great Place Network think. They created www.GreatPlaceNetwork.org, an interactive Web site intended to connect bright and imaginative job-creators, economic developers, regional and state policy makers, Michigan State University experts and the general public.
Travel Michigan announced Tuesday that the Pure Michigan winter advertising campaign scheduled to begin airing in January will be canceled Friday, Dec. 3 unless new funding is provided by that date. The Pure Michigan promotion budget for the 2011 fiscal year has been reduced to $5.4 million from $17 million in 2010 and $28 million in 2009. Full funding of the Pure Michigan campaign is $30 million per year, which will provide for both national and regional advertising campaigns for the spring/summer tourism season and regional campaigns for both the fall and winter tourism seasons.
Rochester Hills-based United Solar, a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices Inc., announced the completion and operation of a solar power project on the rooftop of the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun, Mexico, host site for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This important global event will attract about 20,000 participants from nations around the world. They will gather in Cancun Nov. 29 - Dec. 10, with the objective of discussing future commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Seven out of ten Americans say that it is important to expand the use of electric vehicles as a way to reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to results from the latest Market Strategies International E2 (Energy and Environment) Study. However, while 70 percent agree that it is important to expand the use of EVs, fewer than half (43 percent) see themselves personally driving one in the next 10 years.
Fire officials are investigating after a man was injured in an Ann Arbor house explosion Monday morning. CBS News Detroit's Jordan Burrows gives the latest updates from the scene.
The Michigan State Spartans celebrated a weekend of commencement ceremonies.
Families poured in to check out this Michigan treasure.
The City of Detroit's Easter Fun Fest returns to provide families an opportunity to not only get outside and be active, but ring in the holiday with some fun.
Mixed media artist Donald Calloway has been creating art in some form or fashion most of his life. His art studio takes you on a journey, as his creative collection of his art runs the gamut.
Soon after a positive test, Dorfman found himself hospitalized, on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.
It has been 12 days since anyone has seen Armani Kelly, Montoya Givens and Dante Wicker. Now, a Facebook live video conversation has surfaced where Kelly is seen talking with three men about coming to Detroit only two days before he went missing.
A Plymouth man's cancer diagnosis hit the reset button on how he lived his life. Since then, he and his family have been giving back to others facing the same struggles.
The Sphinx organization gives a platform to Black and Latinx performers of all ages.