Category Archives: Local News

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – A portion of Central Avenue in downtown Holland will be closed in the coming weeks for reconstruction. Beginning Monday, June 15th, the work zone will start just north of 9t...

POLKTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WHTC) – A car crash in Polkton Township last night left both drivers injured and one man pinned inside his vehicle. 28-year-old Ernest Hamstra of Allendale was driving sout...

ALLENDALE, MI (WHTC) – A traffic accident in Allendale Township yesterday morning left an eight-year-old girl in the hospital. At approximately 7:20 am on Friday, a 21-year-old Portland, MI resi...

HOLLAND (WHTC) – Hope College volleyball standout Jenna Grasmeyer has been named recipient of the MIAA’s Sheila Wallace Kovalchik Award at the league’s most outstanding senior female...

HOLLAND (WHTC) – Kollen Park will be the site of Holland’s seventh annual multicultural festival Saturday. The event brings together the area’s vast and diverse cultures for a day of...

LANSING (WHTC) – A lawmaker’s efforts to get an economic SmartZone established in the Holland area is headed to the floor of the state Senate. The Senate Economic Development and Internati...

MONROE, MI (WHTC) – The deer hunt in the Upper Peninsula will be scaled back this fall as state officials look to try to boost the herd. The Natural Resources Commission has voted to cancel antl...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – Holland’s “Eastern Gateway” may become the location of a new home for the West Coast Chamber of Commerce. The chamber’s current 7,200-square-foot-loc...

GRAND RAPIDS (WHTC) – Sentencing for an Indiana bank robber originally set for Thursday has been rescheduled. Brian Standiford, who pleaded guilty to robbing a Chemical Bank in Kalamazoo County'...

HOPKINS (WHTC) – An Allegan County man is dead after his SUV slammed head-on into a tanker truck Thursday near Hopkins. Michigan State Police at the Wayland post say the victim, whose name has n...