Category Archives: Local News
Annual Community Picnic Reaches Out To Those With Special Needs
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – For those who want to brave the summer heat today, Fulfilling Life Ministries of Holland will be holding "The Best Picnic in the Country" at Doug and Vivian Ver Hoevens' far...
Jul 18, 2015
Photo Released in Search for Grand Haven-Area Burglar
PORT SHELDON TWP., MI (WHTC) – Ottawa County Sheriff's Detectives are hoping the release of images from surveillance video can help capture a suspect in a convenience store burglary last weekend...
Jul 17, 2015
Ottawa Co. Crowdfunding Campaign for Bike Trail Funding Still Running Short
WEST OLIVE, MI (WHTC) – A two-week-long online crowdfunding campaign by the Ottawa County Planning Commission for 60 thousand dollars by next Friday, July 24th, is still 35 grand away from its g...
Jul 17, 2015
Autopsy on Grand Haven Area Girl Confirms Accidental Death Conclusion
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – An autopsy done on Mikayla Rae VanderLaan has confirmed initial Sheriff's detectives' findings that showed the four-year-old Grand Haven area girl was the victim of an ...
Jul 17, 2015
More than a Million Dollars in Fines Collections Doled Out to Ottawa Co. Libraries
WEST OLIVE, MI (WHTC) – According to Ottawa County Treasurer Brad Slagh, county courts paid out more than a million dollars last year in fines from criminal violations and civil infractions to l...
Jul 17, 2015
Saturday Air Quality Alert Issued for Lakeshore; MAX Fixed Route Buses Run Free
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – For the first time in nearly a year, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will issue an Air Quality Alert for the entire Lakeshore tomorrow. Conditions for eleva...
Jul 17, 2015
Tired Driver Causes Crash West of Spring Lake
SPRING LAKE TWP., MI (WHTC) – A two-car crash overnight just west of Spring Lake hospitalized a 38-year-old Wyoming woman. Joni Johnson was taken to North Ottawa Community Hospital for treatment...
Jul 17, 2015
Holland Township Approves Capital Spending Blueprint
HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC) – The Holland Township Board has approved a 72.2 million-dollar capital improvement plan that covers 2016 through 2021. The proposal is nearly split evenly between expend...
Jul 17, 2015
Two Zeeland Bikers Hit Deer 15 Minutes and 25 Miles Apart
UNDATED (WHTC) – Two Zeeland motorcyclists were hurt in separate incidents involving deer at opposite ends of Ottawa County. Robert Merren suffered bumps and bruises after the 6a-year-old biker ...
Jul 16, 2015
Visitors Packing Local Hotels This Summer, CVB Head Says
HOLLAND (WHTC) – Visitors are flocking to Holland in droves this summer – that word from the head of the local Convention and Visitors Bureau. CVB Executive Director Sally Laukitis says ho...
Jul 16, 2015
