Oakland County

Former President and current 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump was the keynote speaker at an Oakland County GOP event Sunday night, where he received a “Man of the Decade” award in front of a supportive crowd.

Wastewater testing will occur in areas with potentially low polio vaccination coverage, or with possible connections to the at-risk communities that are linked to a case where a man was diagnosed with paralytic polio outside New York City.

Oakland County communities will no longer be able to opt out of southeast Michigan’s regional bus service, SMART. That’s just one result of a transit millage that county voters passed Tuesday.

Michigan’s new 11th Congressional District is entirely within Oakland County. Congresswoman Haley Stevens won a tough Democratic primary, and is now expected to easily win the general election. That's an indication of how much Oakland County politics have changed in recent years.

As the Jan. 6 congressional committee meets again, we learned more about congressional investigations throughout history and heard about Oakland County's changing politics. Plus, a boxer and filmmaker discuss their movie We Can Be Heroes.

The Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted to approve the ballot option. Now residents will vote on the 10-year millage expected to raise over $66 million in its first year.

Health officials in both counties say pandemic conditions have improved, so school mask mandates will be lifted February 28.

Parents have filed a lawsuit against the Oakland County health officer over the school mask mandate. The suit also targets the Troy, Waterford, and Huron Valley school districts.

Oakland County is trying to help families struggling with child care costs by using some of its federal stimulus money to fund child care scholarships for 1,000 families.

The Oakland County prosecutor talked to us about why she's charging the parents of the alleged Oxford school shooting with involuntary manslaughter. Also, a Republican state representative on whether the Oxford High School shooting changes the gun-control conversation.