ORCHARD LAKE — 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.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The Zox HOA recently won the designation from the state of Michigan to become an incorporated village.

FARMINGTON HILLS — Michiganders are warned to be on the lookout for text messages requesting overdue toll payments.

FARMINGTON HILLS — The Farmington Hills City Council recently passed a resolution to reduce the deer population through hunting and culling methods.

OAKLAND COUNTY — A Farmington man with a urology practice in West Bloomfield has been sentenced to 10-25 years in prison after pleading no contest to 28 counts that include criminal sexual conduct and sexual abuse.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — Michiganders are warned to be on the lookout for text messages requesting overdue toll payments.

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP — A beloved restaurant has gone up in flames.

FARMINGTON HILLS —The Farmington Area Arts Commission presented the commission’s 2024 annual report to the Farmington Hills City Council at a City Council meeting March 24.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The West Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution to use  $721,800 from the public safety capital fund for the expansion and renovation of Fire Station No. 1 at a Township Board meeting April 14.

FARMINGTON HILLS — Having working smoke alarms in the home was the key message when the Farmington Hills Fire Department and the American Red Cross teamed up to promote home fire safety at a live controlled-room fire demonstration April 23.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — At the April 14 West Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting, the township’s assessor, Robert Scripture, gave a property revenue tax update report for the 2026 tax year and 2027 budget year.

METRO DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts announced the Oakland County communities that are participating in the museum’s 2025 Inside|Out program.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — Earlier this year, residents of Maple Place Villas Condominiums in West Bloomfield  presented their request to the West Bloomfield Planning Commission to turn their 24-hour manned-guard entrance gate into a card-reader gate with no guard present.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The West Bloomfield Police Department dispatch center received a call around 5:00 p.m. April 11 that a crime was in progress at a Verizon Wireless store located at 4301 Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield, according to a press release from the WBPD.

METRO DETROIT — Starting May 7, in order to board a domestic flight within the United States, a REAL ID or a compliant document will be required. C and G Newspapers recently explored some of the pertinent facts.