Ann Arbor News

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Ann Arbor police are asking for help identifying a man who robbed a Comerica Bank Tuesday in Ann Arbor. According to police, the man entered the bank located at the corner of Washtenaw…

by Olivia Vigiletti For the 8th consecutive year, local nonprofit Dawn Farm has partnered with a group of University of Michigan nurses and anesthesiologists to host an event that allows people of all fitness levels to tackle the problem…

by Patricia Lesko Ann Arbor recently passed Detroit as the city with the highest assessed value in the state. In the realm of public safety, however, while the number of violent crimes and property crimes in Detroit have fallen, in Ann…

by Patricia Lesko The Council packet for the Mar. 20 City Council meeting includes the Deer Management: White Buffalo Report. The 22-page Year One Summary report includes information about the methods used to both harvest 96 deer and…

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Staff A pair of grassroots organizations working to change the way congressional and legislative districts are drawn in Michigan will host an informational meeting in Ann Arbor. Voters Not…

by Patricia Lesko About 50 people from neighborhoods all over Ann Arbor attended a "Nowruz Neighbor" potluck at the Burns Park Senior Center on Sat. March 18 and wished each other “Sal-e Naw Mubarak,” or “Happy New Year” in Farsi, the…

by Laura Entis The Ann Arbor Police Dept. this week launched a Twitter account: @A2Police. In two days, Ann Arbor's women and men in blue have Tweeted out three times. In the same time period, one of the seven Twitter accounts of the New…

by Rob C. Smith At the beginning of March, the White House proposed gutting Environmental Protection Agency funding that pays for Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 percent, according to a budget document obtained by the National…

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Next Monday, the Ann Arbor Board of Review will hear appeals of city tax assessments. To schedule a review, taxpayers are required to call the assessor's office at 734-794-6530. Sessions are…

by Patricia Lesko In a meeting held at lunch-time on Wednesday Mar. 1, over the objections of both the Main Street and State Street Area Association member business owners, the Downtown Development Authority Board approved the leasing of…