Contactless cash payments, hand sanitizing stations and social distancing rules are some of the new COVID-19 precautions at the Dodge Park farmers market when it opened for the season last week in Sterling Heights. 

In these days of COVID-19, with all of the hardships faced by small business owners, partnering together and sharing resources and customers can be as powerful a survival strategy as any. A yoga studio and vegan restaurant have done just that.

Bees in the D has grown from managing just six hives in metro Detroit to 175 in the last four years, popping up on rooftops, at schools, and even at automotive factories. The honeybee advocates say it's the local businesses and volunteers who keep Michigan buzzing. 

The Chicago-style chain restaurant plans to open its first Michigan location in Sterling Heights next year.

Oakland and Macomb county-based manufacturers are able to apply for a new grant to create Personal Protective Equipment, thanks to a new program in collaboration with Automation Alley.

The process of slowly, safely re-opening up businesses in downtown Farmington has mirrored the gradual arrival of spring. We’ve had to be patient, but we’ve also reveled in each small sign of change.

Sterling Heights resident John Myers III remembers when he moved to Macomb 25 years ago, he heard Sterling Heights labelled "Sterling Whites" and was told to drive with his "seat fully in an upright position" and "no baseball hat or hood", to better avoid police attention. Now, Myers will be part of a new equity coalition, aimed at better connecting city leadership with the community's 10,000 Black residents.

Moe Hider, owner of Dearborn-based Famous Hamburger, says he "never would have thought in ages" that his business would be able to survive solely based on carryout orders.