For the second consecutive meeting , Birmingham City Commissioners were deadlocked in their selection of a new commissioner to fill the vacancy left by former mayor pro tem Anthony Long, with a tie between candidates Mary Jaye and Debra Horner during the Monday, April 27, meeting, mirroring the circumstances of the meeting two weeks prior.

After a shooting took place at a Birmingham home on E. Lincoln being rented out, city commissioners took up discussions during the Monday, April 27, meeting regarding moratorium on short-term rentals (STR) and what the city could do to further regulate the use.

The Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees met with James Gallagher, Bloomfield Township Police Chief, for the third time to discuss the police department’s space needs at their meeting on Monday, April 28.

A portion of Birmingham’s residents will soon be getting a community survey in the mail after city commissioners approved the final draft of the survey questions during the Monday, April 27, meeting.

A 3.5 percent increase to both Bloomfield Township water and sewer rates for 2026-2027 was approved by the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees at their meeting on Monday, April 27.

Following a budget hearing on Saturday, April 25, the city of Birmingham is looking at a $146.6 million budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, a 3.1 percent increase from the 2025-2026 fiscal year budget.

The Birmingham school district was forced to deal with an antisemitic incident at an event at an elementary school that was intended to bring together the community to appreciate the varied cultures represented in the area. According to a community announcement issued by schools superintendent Dr. Embekka Roberson, the incident took place at an event during Beverly Elementary’s Multicultural Night on Tuesday evening, April 28. According Roberson, “during the event, a table in

A Bloomfield Township man has recently been arrested and arraigned for accosting a child for immoral purposes and use of a computer for a crime in a case dating back to late summer of 2025. According to Bloomfield Township police, in early August of 2025 a detective with the Kent County Sheriff’s Office contacted the Bloomfield Township Police Department’s Investigations Division, advising them of an investigation which may involve a Bloomfield Township resident. The Kent Cou

A Dearborn man was accused of slapping the bouncer of a Birmingham bar around 1 a.m. the morning of Sunday, April 19, as well as assaulting a police officer. Birmingham police reported that the fight took place outside a bar on the 100 block of Willits. The suspect was yelling at other patrons, and when two people tried to hold him back, one of them was allegedly slapped across the face by the man who also later assaulted an officer. Birmingham police reported an investigatio

The nominating petitions for one of the Republicans who filed for the U.S. House 11th District, which includes Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham, were denied as invalid last week by election officials. Republican Tony Prieto of Farmington had turned in petitions by the filing deadline of Tuesday, April 21, but at the end of last week election officials said he failed to submit the minimum number of signatures to make the August 4 ballot. With Prieto out of