 The US Census Bureau in 2000 identified Brighton, Howell and the nearby city of South Lyon to be a contiguously-urbanized area, one of the newest such areas in the United States.There are two local newspapers, the "Livingston County Daily Press & Argus," owned by Gannett Company, and "The Community Journal", which is an independently owned weekly.The "Daily Press & Argus," which publishes daily except Saturday, was launched in 2000 through the combination of two weekly newspapers, "The Livingston County Press" and "The Brighton Argus," which served the communities for many decades.