John Brickey News Today

NOVI — Students and staff at Novi Meadows Elementary School, which serves the fifth and sixth grades, are starting the year off in a brand-new building. The school building sits high upon a hill facing Taft Road, on what was once a parking lot, like a gem for all to see.

Restaurant owners, previously allowed to have outdoor seating on sidewalks, say the city is charging too much to keep the practice going.

Kids dont walk to school or ride the bus like they used to. The resulting traffic is causing some major headaches for parents and commuters alike.

Longview — Ann Rivers has been chipping away at the big improvements she wants to see in Longview.

AUBURN — Local police agencies arrested 17 people from Jan. 19-25, according to DeKalb County Jail records. Michael McMahon, 62, of the 700 block of North Main Street, Auburn, was arrested Jan. 18 at 6:48 p.m. by the Auburn Police Department on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated as a Class A and Class C misdemeanor. Donald Johnston, 35, of the 2000 block of U.S. 6, Waterloo, was arrested Jan. 18 at 6:48 p.m. by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office on a DeKalb County warran...