"Many of us look at the candidates and hope to find ways in which their values and our own intersect. And yet, on the eve of ...

As fall temperatures turn chilly, Michigan communities are working to use the weather to their advantage by making the state’s frigid cold into an experience for visitors.

Michigan’s Renewables Ready Communities Awards are providing extra funding to encourage local governments to approve large-scale renewable energy projects, with recipients applying the money to local ...

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OTTAWA COUNTY — More than two decades after a fatal house fire led to a life sentence for an Ottawa County woman, a circuit court judge is weighing whether advancements in fire science and ...

OTTAWA COUNTY — In a major structural overhaul, the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners voted on June 23 to disband the county’s long-standing housing commission. In its place, officials are ...

He was born on January 23, 1951, in Ludington, Michigan. John was an all-around handyman. He made beautiful furniture and quilts. He enjoyed cooking and baking and made the best Dutch Banket. John ...

OTTAWA COUNTY — In a midterm election year, local residents can see several choices as to who represents them in local, state and federal government — and 2026 is no exception. This year is shaping up ...

OLIVE TWP. — One person was killed, and four others were critically injured Monday afternoon following a two-vehicle collision involving an SUV and a cement truck at the intersection of 120th Avenue ...

JENISON — Inside the Grand Ravines Lodge on Friday, Sept. 18, a public debate unfolded over the boundaries of modern law enforcement, constitutional privacy, corporate data ownership, and government ...

ALLENDALE TWP. — What began a year ago as an unsettling series of late-night window-peeping incidents near Grand Valley State University's off-campus housing has finally culminated in an arrest. In ...

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — The Grand Haven area will remember the lives of the Karolkiewicz family in a memorial service scheduled for later this month. Amanda "Mandy" Karolkiewicz, 39, and her six children ...