Category Archives: Local News

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – The Zoo is open and there is a master plan in place that will enhance the Zoo over the next 25 years. Phase one includes new habitats in the entryway for black bears. T...

ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC)-Rickie Shelden Jr. 35, pulled over east of 26th Street early Saturday morning to help pick up a relative whose pickup had broken down. Climbing into the vehicle, he was struck by an...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - A Holland-based marketing and brand development firm was awarded eight local Addy awards last Thursday, the Holland Sentinel reports. After submitting 12 entries, The Image Group ...

HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC) – Charges could be sought against an undisclosed “group of juveniles” that phoned in a bomb threat which evacuated a Holland-area store on Saturday night. The...

PARK TWP., MI (WHTC) – Organizers of the third annual dance marathon held at West Ottawa High School through Friday and Saturday say that more than 200 students registered, raising nearly 16 tho...

TROWBRIDGE TWP., MI (WHTC) – A 35-year-old Allegan area man died on Saturday morning in a crash along M-89. According to Sheriff’s Deputies, the vehicle of Rickie Sheldon Jr. had pulled ov...

Grand Rapids, MI (WHTC) – The 20th annual tropical butterfly exhibition opens on Sunday at Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. Thousands of butterflies from Africa, Asia, South and Central Amer...

Grand Rapids, MI (WHTC) – Grand Rapids Community College is getting nearly three-million-dollars from the state Economic Development Corporation. The money will be used to buy equipment and expa...

LISLE, IL (WHTC) – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Region III office outside of Chicago has issued a "white finding" of "low-to-moderate" safety significance for the Palisades plant ne...

GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC) – A Grand Haven man is in the Ottawa County jail waiting arraignment on a felony assault charge after allegedly threatening his girlfriend with a sword. The incident occur...