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New affordable apartments in Jackson welcome first residents
2+ day, 34+ min ago (496+ words) JACKSON, MI " Construction is completed on two new apartment buildings in Jackson and developers hope to have all new residents moved in by the end of 2025. Ohio-based company Pivotal began construction on The Blackstone, 209 N. Blackstone St., and The Greenwood, 702 Greenwood…...
Fire at Ann Arbor Township apartment complex displaces residents before holidays
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (230+ words) ANN ARBOR TWP., MI " A fire that broke out in an Ann Arbor Township apartment building Sunday damaged several units and made the building temporarily uninhabitable. Multiple fire crews responded Sunday, Dec. 21, to the apartment community Haven of Ann Arbor,…...
Dozens displaced after apartment fire near Ann Arbor
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (212+ words) WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI " Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire at an apartment complex in Ann Arbor Township that displaced dozens of residents. Several fire agencies responded Sunday, Dec. Dozens displaced after apartment fire near Ann Arbor WASHTENAW COUNTY,…...
Kent County affordable housing fund needs more investors, leaders say
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (774+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, MI " Kent County Administrator Al Vanderberg is calling on more community partners to invest in an affordable housing loan fund that has helped develop more than 400 housing units since it launched two years ago. Vanderberg touted the success…...
Police peeled through 7 layers of wrapping to find shooting victim hidden inside a mattress
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (105+ words) Police found John Francis Lusch's body hidden deep inside a soiled mattress, folded and bound like it was set to be discarded. Police peeled through 7 layers of wrapping to find shooting victim hidden inside a mattress Preliminary examination of three…...
Woman wakes to find man who broke into Ann Arbor apartment through unlocked window
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (86+ words) The man fled before police arrived. Woman wakes to find man who broke into Ann Arbor apartment through unlocked window ANN ARBOR, MI " A man broke into an Ann Arbor apartment through an unlocked rear window, waking up the woman…...
Ann Arbor apartment fire causes $100K in damage
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (160+ words) Fire crews were called around 5:12 p.m., Sunday, June 1, 2025, to an apartment fire on Island Drive Court in Ann Arbor.Provided by the Ann Arbor Fire Department ANN ARBOR, MI -- An apartment fire in Ann Arbor caused $100,000 in damage, according to officials....
Boy dies in U.P. house fire, mother jumps from second-story window to escape
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (193+ words) The child, whose identity has not been released, did not escape when his home caught on fire on Saturday, May 24, in Laurium, a village near Calumet in the Keweenaw Peninsula, the Houghton County ... Boy dies in U.P. house fire, mother jumps…...
Embattled Ypsilanti apartments condemned, more residents told to vacate
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (108+ words) Many more Arbor One Apartments tenants arrived to find their buildings were red-tagged with notices reading "CONDEMNED. MUST BE VACATED," last week. Embattled Ypsilanti apartments condemned, more residents told to vacate YPSILANTI, MI " Oliver Jayce arrived home to his apartment…...
3 suffer severe burns in apparent explosion, fire at apartment building
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (288+ words) Three of those injured were in the same apartment and suffered critical burns. According to Fox 2 in Detroit, a 30-year-old man with burns on 90% of his body, a 27-year-old woman with burns to 20-40% ... 3 suffer severe burns in apparent explosion, fire…...