DETROIT -- City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city.

Detroit Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield named the city's former corporation counsel, Butch Hollowell, to lead her transition team.

Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield made history, becoming the city's first woman mayor in an election she led from start to finish.

In 2018, with thousands of Detroit households facing water shutoffs or tax foreclosures, a then-31-year-old Councilmember Mary Sheffield stood before city hall to unveil the "People’s Bills," a ...

Detroiters will select their district-level City Council members in five of seven districts in the Nov. 4 general election, with races that include at least two current state lawmakers, one former ...

Mary Sheffield came into her first and only prime-time mayoral debate with the Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. as the hunted. That's generally the way these things go for front-runners — especially when ...

Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield has a commanding 50-percentage point lead over the Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. in the mayoral race among 500 likely city voters, according to a new poll ...

Detroit City Council Mary Sheffield and the Rev. Solomon Kinloch, Jr. sparred in a heated televised debate Wednesday night, Oct. 15, forcing the two to defend themselves and their records, while also ...

Detroit mayoral candidates Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. faced off in a contentious TV debate. Defenses were up amid heated candidate criticisms against each other's track records during the ...

Both candidates highlighted priorities, including boosting businesses and addressing poverty, if elected mayor. Sheffield expects to build on Mayor Mike Duggan's achievements, and fill in remaining ...

In the Nov. 4 general election, Detroiters will elect or return candidates to the Detroit City Council in races for two at-large and five district seats. Four candidates are competing for two at-large ...

Solomon Kinloch, Jr., the pastor at Triumph Church, and Mary Sheffield, Detroit City Council president, took the stage at Broadcast House on Wednesday night. Dodgers great Clayton Kershaw ends his ...