HAZEL PARK — Officials in Hazel Park describe the budget for the new fiscal year as unremarkable with few changes — a good thing, they claim, for residents expecting stable tax rates and city services.

STERLING HEIGHTS — At a time when many people stick to their silos on social media, hearing only what they want to hear, one group in Sterling Heights is trying to connect them, creating understanding.

MADISON HEIGHTS — From now through August, the city of Madison Heights is collecting feedback from residents in an online survey about parks and recreation.

MADISON HEIGHTS — Having renewed its contract with waste hauler Priority Waste, the city of Madison Heights is preparing for a change in how trash and recyclables are collected.

STERLING HEIGHTS — The city of Sterling Heights will celebrate its fourth annual Juneteenth this year with a dance workshop, soul food sampling, live music and more.

MADISON HEIGHTS — The proposed budget for the new fiscal year has been adopted, without changes, by the Madison Heights City Council. While the overall operating millage will not increase, water and sewer rates will see an increase due to rising commodity costs.

EASTPOINTE — Authorities are asking the public for help identifying a woman who abandoned a litter of kittens at a local motel.

EASTPOINTE — Police are investigating a drive-by shooting in which two individuals were seriously injured.

MADISON HEIGHTS — A local man is in custody after allegedly pointing a handgun at people near his home and barricading himself there, prompting police to call in a SWAT team.

HAZEL PARK — An 18-year minimum prison sentence has been handed down in the case of a Rochester woman who formed a crush on a man she saw at the gym and stalked his girlfriend, pistol-whipping her outside a home in Hazel Park.

HAZEL PARK — The Hazel Park Public Schools Board of Education decided last month to reinstate its superintendent, Amy Kruppe, after 100-plus days of non-disciplinary paid leave. Since then, Beverly Hinton, the board president and its spokesperson, has raised concerns about the district’s finances.

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.

MADISON HEIGHTS — Now in its fifth year, the Madison Heights Juneteenth Celebration will once again liven up Civic Center Park with music, food trucks, a vendor fair, a petting zoo, pony rides, climbing towers, bounce houses and more.

EASTPOINTE — Detectives with the Eastpointe Police Department are investigating a drive-by shooting that wounded a man.

EASTPOINTE — A Detroit man has succumbed to knife wounds following an altercation at an Eastpointe home.