STERLING HEIGHTS — Becoming a Sterling Heights Featured Artist isn’t child’s play, but at the same time, it is no longer an honor solely confined to grownups.

STERLING HEIGHTS — The Sterling Heights Planning Commission recently deliberated over proposed regulations that could make it easier for residents to literally mind their own beeswax — by maintaining beekeeping apiaries in the city.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel updated the public on the yearslong Innovate Mound project — which just wrapped up its core roadwork along an estimated 9-mile stretch of Mound Road, from Interstate 696 to M-59 — at a Dec. 20 press conference outside Srodek’s Quality Polish Food in Sterling Heights.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights officials recently celebrated a new high score for the city on a rubric that measures LGBTQ rights and advocacy.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights police announced that one of their officers fired a gun at a stolen car that police said presented a risk of hitting officers the night of Dec. 14.

STERLING HEIGHTS — When Julia Frueh got married in November, she knew she wanted the occasion to be somewhere special. And for her, that place was the church at Grace Centers of Hope in Pontiac.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Upon leaving military life about a decade ago, retired U.S. Army Sgt. Darrell Kingsberry Jr.’s life, in his words, had “been up and down,” sometimes fortunate and other times not-so-fortunate.

STERLING HEIGHTS — A plan to put an apartment complex on Brougham Drive was recently postponed by the Sterling Heights Planning Commission after members suggested changes that they believe could make the property more harmonious to residential neighbors and the concept of a mixed-use district.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Bells will be ringing, and so will cash registers, this holiday season. But just how much metro Detroiters’ wallets will be in the Christmas spirit remains to be seen, according to local businesses and economic observers.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights resident Pat Mitchell lives in a neighborhood next to the ITC corridor and its transmission lines, near Schoenherr Road, north of Clinton River Road.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Police at Macomb Community College are conducting an investigation after a man’s body was discovered in the ventilation system at one of the college’s Center Campus buildings.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights city officials are counting the latest statistics from the FBI as evidence of success in keeping crime in check.

STERLING HEIGHTS — The city of Sterling Heights’ new Featured Artist is an Assyrian Iraqi American who aspires to carry on a millennia-long legacy of Middle Eastern art.

STERLING HEIGHTS — A drain near a Sterling Heights shopping plaza that was filled with concrete debris and trash is now cleanly flowing to the Clinton River, according to the Macomb County Public Works Office.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights is inviting local veterans and their supporters to a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Sterling Heights Community Center, 40250 Dodge Park Road.