METRO DETROIT — Fantasy and reality will meet in St. Clair Shores at this year’s Michigan Fantasy Festival.

METRO DETROIT — Here's a look at five things to do during the weekend of June 6-8.

NOVI — Twice a year, the Motor City Comic Con, marketed as “Michigan’s largest and longest-running pop culture event,” takes over the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi and provides the opportunity for fans of all ages to be able to interact with their celebrity heroes.

NOVI — The sixth annual Novi BBQ Fest returned for its second run on Memorial Day weekend at Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk.

METRO DETROIT — Here's a look at five things to do during the weekend of May 29-June 1.

NOVI — Wildcat Willy, the Novi High School mascot, received a dramatic face-lift from one of the school’s largest graduating classes — 576 students — during the school’s commencement ceremony May 18 at the George Gervin GameAbove Center at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

MACKINAC ISLAND — Mackinac Island celebrates a big anniversary this year. For a couple decades in the late 19th century, about half of the island was a national park, the country’s second, behind Yellowstone National Park.

METRO DETROIT — Two master gardeners from Michigan State University Extension recently shared their expertise on composting and gardening during presentations at the Bloomfield Township Public Library.

METRO DETROIT — “This is quite a group. I was here last week. There were 374 cars,” Shelby Township resident Tom Konicki said. “There are quality cars here. Cars that are so rare. Beautiful cars.”

METRO DETROIT – Four people, including a rapper from Rochester Hills, are accused of stealing $63 million in checks from the U.S. Postal Service and selling them online.

NOVI — The Novi community could not be deterred from remembering its fallen soldiers with its annual Fuerst Field of Honor ceremony, despite rain on May 21. However, the weather resulted in a change of venue and the absence of the 21-gun salute.

OAKLAND COUNTY — Oakland County’s economic future is “complicated” as Michigan’s economy slows, and national and global policies coming from Washington, D.C., are currently very fluid, according to economist Gabriel Ehrlich, of the University of Michigan.

METRO DETROIT — As the school year ends and the second year of the Michigan School Meals program nears completion, C & G Newspapers looked across metro Detroit to see what food programs are available to bridge the food insecurity gap during the summer.

METRO DETROIT — A mission group to Haiti that includes churches in Sterling Heights, Southfield and more is sounding the alarm on the plight of the country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere — as gangs have captured the town of Mirebalais, once a safe haven.

METRO DETROIT — Seven C & G Newspapers staffers received 17 awards from the Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit Chapter’s Excellence in Journalism awards and the Michigan Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest.

METRO DETROIT — A mission group to Haiti that includes churches in Sterling Heights, Southfield and more is sounding the alarm on the plight of the country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere — as gangs have captured the town of Mirebalais, once a safe haven.

METRO DETROIT — Here's a look at five things to do during the weekend of May 23-26.

OAKLAND COUNTY — Communities that contract with Oakland County for assessing services are raising concerns — and in some cases, changing vendors — after a narrowly divided Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted to raise rates.

NOVI — The Novi Choralaires marked 50 years of bringing people together through music with their annual spring concert on May 10 at the Novi Middle School auditorium.

NOVI — People with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have found employment held a discussion at the Novi Public Library May 8 as ambassadors for Mi Work Matters, a nonprofit organization, on the value of workers with disabilities.