Birmingham News

It's awards season, the time of year when celebrities don their designer best for the red-carpet stroll into cinematic - or fashion - immortality.

The Central Woodward Coalition may have gotten detoured on its quest to establish a light rail line from Eight Mile all the way to Birmingham.

Almost every night around 6, from mid-October until mid-March, my mother would start a fire in the fireplace in our den.

Springdale Golf Course and Park, with the children's play area in the foreground and the golf clubhouse in the background.

Birmingham has more than a dozen homeowners associations, demarking dozens of neighborhoods scattered within the city's boundaries.

Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh will take part in a "listening session" to "gather relevant, timely feedback" and carry this insight from Oakland County residents to the Detroit City Council, 5-8 p.m. Feb.

Birmingham officials are mulling a plan to narrow this stretch of Maple, between Eton and Adams, from two lanes down to one lane in each direction, while adding a middle turn lane and a bike lane.

With snow expected Friday night, Birmingham might wake up to some white stuff on the ground Saturday morning.

Want to check the traffic scene before you head home for the weekend? Here's a real-time look at Friday traffic around Birmingham from Mapquest.

Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson was introduced at last night's State of the County address by "Elite 40 under 40" winner Hajj Flemings .

Looking to take in a movie this weekend? At the Palladium 12 , check out the recently-released 3D version of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace .

A crowd estimated at more than 2,000 converged on the Royal Oak Farmers Market Wednesday night for the first Michigan Mobile Food Vendors Association food-truck rally, standing in line for up to an hour for tacos, sandwiches, burgers and other street food treats.

The Ladybug Shoppe has a new location on Catalpa Drive. After 28 years in downtown Royal Oak-16 years on South Washington and 12 years on Sixth Street-needleworker Laura Harrison has decided to spread her wings and fly north to the former Huber Rug Cleaning building.

With its long winters and car-friendly layout, metro Detroit isn't the most fertile ground for the nationwide trend of traveling food trucks to take root.

Theresa Flores is a social worker, and director of education and training for Gracehaven House , in Ohio.

Wednesday is here and it's a busy one for Birmingham-area high school athletes. Are you looking to keep up with what's going on in high school sports? Check out what's on the schedule for these area athletes for Wednesday, Feb.

Ready for the weekend already? Check out what's going on this weekend in and around Birmingham with today's weekend spotlight: Our pick for today: BEF's Unabashed Bash When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Townsend Hotel Cost: $160 per person Why Go: This weekend is the Birmingham Education Foundation's annual fundraiser, the Unabashed Bash, at the ... (more)

The race for the 40th District seat in the Michigan House of Representatives just got more interesting.

Jamie Donofrio, 11, of Campbell, Calif., is a longtime Lego fan who likes to collect mini-figures, which she uses for both building and for making stop-action movies.

You've spent hours trying to figure out how to break the bad news to your friend.