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Deputy County Executive Sean Carlson listed in a letter Friday 731 jobs that are likely to move to downtown Pontiac by 2026.

One of the major planning elements is ensuring state employees who now park at the Phoenix Center have a place to park as the demolition and construction get underway.

The $19.2 million real estate deal is one way the county is re-investing in Pontiac, the county seat, and a way Coulter, Mayor Tim Greimel and others said Thursday to right a historic wrong.

Exhaust smoke once again created a haze at the corner of Woodward and West Pike Street as racers returned to the starting line for legal street racing on Woodward.

Just when temperatures dropped for southeast Michigan’s first cold snap of the winter, politics in Pontiac got hot. Mayor Deidre Waterman suddenly has a serious challenger in the election this year. She will face former state Rep. Tim Greimel. At a barber shop on city’s south side Thursday morning, as thermometers showed 15 degrees, Greimel lit the fire under his bid for the mayor’s job. Waterman, elected in 2013 and reelected in 2017, hadnt revealed her political plans until the Free ...