These are the Detroit Free Press stories that made an impact on our communities and created positive change in 2024.

Journalism is not always fast. Sure, the Free Press operates in a digital world where every second counts, but even in that ...

Survivors of the 2017 Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa have a message for L.A. fire victims: You can’t imagine it now, but it is ...

Klein: Right. A big part of everything right now is Trump persuading his own people, the demoralized and dispirited ...

Mandy Moore and Busy Philipps are among the stars mourning the loss of influencer Rebecca Wylie Simms, who died at age 39 ...

Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte county fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of ...

As officials rush to remove barriers to rebuilding fire-ravaged communities, are they passing up a rare opportunity to craft ...

L.A. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke feels equally grateful and guilty that his home in Altadena was spared as wildfire ...

Insurance companies were fleeing fire-prone parts of California even before the disaster in Los Angeles. Policymakers are ...

Many Californians thought wildfires couldn’t reach deep into their cities. But the Los Angeles fires showed how older homes ...

That could be your life, if you choose to retire in Puerto Rico — and one of these homes, which are currently on the market, ...