West Riverfront News Today

Vakarvery Scott, 22, will serve life without parole for the killing of Savannah Mathis, a Hillsborough judge ruled Thursday.

Inside a packed courtroom on the top floor of the Hillsborough County Courthouse, about 20 members of Savannah Mathis’ family waited quietly. They donned shirts bearing the 21-year-old nursing student’s smiling face and carried life-size cardboard cutouts of her. Earlier this month, a jury found Vakarvery Scott guilty of first-degree murder in Mathis’ slaying. The verdict carries a mandatory ...

Vakarvery Scott is charged with murder in the 2021 killing of Savannah Mathis, 21. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

One night in 2021, a Tampa nursing student and her younger sister were leaving their family’s restaurant, BJ’s Alabama BBQ on South Dale Mabry Highway. About an hour after the sisters hugged their aunt goodbye, police found their bullet-ridden Nissan Altima in Tampa’s West Riverfront neighborhood. Savannah Mathis, 21, had been shot in the head as she drove down the street. Now, two years ...

It’s part of the City Walls program’s push to bring more public art downtown ahead of NFL Draft

As the Detroit People Mover is set to receive system improvements ahead of the 2024 NFL draft, officials announced that there will be closures at stations. 

That area is the West Riverfront neighborhood and is a few blocks from Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park.

The half-mile expansion of Detroit's Riverwalk allows visitors to walk or bike 3.5 miles along the river without any interruptions.

Detroit City Council resolution moves along the process of having 501 Third Avenue listed as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

The states largest fireworks display officially starts at 10:06 p.m. Monday. Heres everything you need to know, from parking to road closures.