Renovations to the former YMCA building located at 400 E. Lincoln in Birmingham are one step closer to becoming reality after the city commission approved a design/build agreement with DMC Group during the Monday, August 24, meeting.

The Birmingham Bloomfield Cultural Council has announced this year’s honorees for the 2026 Cultural Arts Awards.

The city of Birmingham’s food choices will now include two new bagel shops Bev’s Bagels, the organic sourdough bagel shop that opened in Detroit’s Core City last summer, is expanding to Birmingham at 283 Hamilton Row. The shop will open a second location at 283 Hamilton Row in September, bringing chef-owner Max Sussman back to his Oakland County roots.

In a 6-1 vote, the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees approved the motion to enter into an interlocal agreement with Oakland County to have limited access to their emergency notification system which will send out emergency notices to those within the township.

A new magistrate may be added to the docket at the 48th District Court after Birmingham City Commissioners offered their approval during the Monday, August 24, meeting.

The Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees on Monday, August 24, voted unanimously to approve a fourth magistrate be put into the rotating schedule for the 48th District Court.

Pipeline Management Company was awarded the 2026 sanitary sewer rehabilitation program at the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, August 24, but not before some heated words were exchanged between trustees.

Board of education members in the Birmingham Public Schools received a number of complaints, and a few comments of support, this week during the public comment portion of the board’s meeting on Tuesday, August 25, about the “bell-to-bell” school policy banning smartphones and other wireless devices starting with the new school year. A new Michigan law banning smartphone use during K-12 instruction times was signed into law in February of this year, although the specific impl

Birmingham police are reportedly investigating a car theft that resulted in an injured suspect after he allegedly got into a collision with another car. Police reported that they got a call the night of Friday, August 14, by the car owner saying someone was inside the car that was parked in his driveway in the 300 block of Puritan. Officers initially found the car and suspect speeding near W. Lincoln and Henrietta, but they were unable to stop him after trying to pull him ov

A 19-year-old man and 18-year-old man were caught and given citations for disorderly conduct in Birmingham the night of Sunday, August 16, for using a bullhorn on top of a parking structure near the 300 block of N. Old Woodward. One of them also allegedly threw food at a bystander, according to police.