DETROIT – If the residents of Detroit ever tried to dig a hole to China like I did when I was a kid, you probably wouldn’t have made it to China, but you might have eventually reached the secret salty ...

The Detroit Salt Company has shut down following two fires early Thursday morning, according to city officials. At around 1:15 a.m., the fire department received an initial call regarding a fire at ...

LANSING, MI — Regulators are seeking public input on a draft air pollution permit for a controversial $1.2 billion salt and potash mine in Osceola County. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great ...

Detroit is known for cars and music. Natural resources? Not so much. Yet each day, 30 or so miners descend nearly 1,200 ft. beneath the city to extract salt from remnants of ancient seas that extend ...