White Lake News

She was a 14-year-old chatterbox, somewhat annoying - but in a cute way. He was a quiet and mild-mannered schoolmate of the same age.

White Lake Township is in the process of launching it's own version of a stimulus package to help revive development and household improvements throughout the community.

Moving to different locations in Michigan presents new challenges for all of the students involved in this year's summer theatre.

The Michigan Senate has passed a version of the state's 2009-10 General Government budget containing an almost across-the-board 10 percent cut in spending for each listed department, as well as a sizeable cut in the state revenue sharing program for local governments.

While there have been pockets of development in the lakes area over the last 18 months, it hasn't been immune from a countywide slowdown in residential and commercial building activity, according to Oakland County planners and a pair of new Southeast Michigan Council of Governments reports on 2008 developments.

A judge ordered that a White Lake Township man accused of stabbing to death his parents in 2008 should remain at the state's Center for Forensic Psychiatry, where he is under the care of doctors and taking his medication.

A majority of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has approved hiring a lobbying firm to represent their interests in Lansing, a move that's been placed on and off the table for consideration over the past few months.

A White Lake Township man sustained multiple first- and second-degree burns in a Tuesday, June 9 explosion at A&R Sealcoating & Trucking, located on Pontiac Lake Road in Waterford Township.

Representatives of local police departments that had been members of a joint drug enforcement team are expected to meet this week to try resolving issues that prompted two departments to recently pull out of the team.

Legislation recently introduced in both the state House and Senate seeks to add leasing and hiring provisions to a previously introduced legislative package that would transfer operation of Detroit's Cobo Center to a regional convention center authority.

A cut in funding for Oakland County beach monitoring has resulted in a drastic decline in the number of beaches to be tested for water tainted by bacteria during the 2009 season.

The SONIC restaurant chain will see its plans for a new eatery in White Lake Township come to fruition in the first few weeks of July, when ground-breaking is scheduled to take place.

A 38-year-old White Lake Township resident was found dead after being missing for a day, and is believed to be the victim of a fatal all-terrain vehicle accident.

A chemical explosion Tuesday at a Waterford plant injured a 52-year-old White Lake man.

The White Lake Township Police Department's dispatch area will receive some much needed improvements in the coming months, as the township's application for several thousand dollars in grant money is nearing final approval.

Three prisons and five prison camps -- including Oakland County's White Lake -- will close this year under a plan announced by Gov.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration will close 3 state prisons and all 5 of Michigan's minimum-security prison camps this year to save money.

A compromise plan to expand and renovate Detroit's Cobo Center may have been reach at the Mackinac Policy Conference last week, just as legislation resurrecting the idea of creating a regional authority to run and expand Cobo was passed by the state Senate.

Eleven students from the Walled Lake Northern High School French Club are to make a trip to Europe that was put in jeopardy after the group's travel agency filed for bankruptcy.

The Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce has been privileged to serve the businesses and residents of Commerce, Highland, Milford and White Lake since 1962.