Two key Oakland County officials are resigning and two others face brief unpaid suspensions as the county continues to deal with a contract scandal.

Officials in July awarded a contract to a tech company owned by a county employee. Four employees are now being disciplined.

The driver of an SUV was trapped in the vehicle, and later died, in the aftermath of a crash early Friday in Highland Township.

Just days after a brazen burglary at the famed Louvre museum in Paris garnered international media attention, someone broke into a storage facility belonging to the Oakland Museum of California

Because of the shutdown, millions across the country won’t have access to their SNAP, or food stamp benefits, in November. But some Bay Area restaurants are picking up the slack.

There was a special Halloween reveal at Chabot Elementary School in Oakland on Friday: a custom-designed Mario Kart costume for Asa Luo, 10, that fits his wheelchair.

The Black Cultural Zone is working on a revitalization initiative, the Rise East 40x40 project, which spans from Seminary Avenue to the Oakland-San Leandro border.

François Chatillon, France’s chief architect of historical monuments, noted nonetheless that many museums, especially in Europe, are in historic buildings that were not constructed with the goal of securing art. The Louvre, after all, was a royal palace — a medieval one at that.