Category Archives: Local News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

PARK TWP., MI (WHTC) – Good news from state officials in their search for crayfish on Lake Macatawa. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division found no red swamp crayfish w...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – Due primarily to having just seven of nine members on hand on Wednesday evening, the Holland City Council postponed taking any action on lifting the sunset provision of a on...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – It may have come six months late, but an economic tool for the Holland area can now be utilized. Governor Rick Snyder signed a bill on Wednesday that will bring economic gro...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan Virtual University begins its inaugural iEducator 21st Century Digital Learning Corps this month with the goal of training 12 education graduates in online teaching...