Category Archives: Local News

DETROIT, MI (WHTC) – The Ottawa Area Intermediate School District will need to find a new superintendent after Governor Snyder appointed Karen McPhee as his new education policy adviser. She tak...

HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC) – The Lakeshore Housing Alliance's annual Point in Time snapshot count in Ottawa County showed that there were 266 total homeless persons on January 28th, evenly split be...

ST JOSEPH, MI (WHTC) – St. Joseph’s iconic lighthouses will be showcased in the Big Apple. Photographer Laura Kraklau has two pictures that have been chosen to be part of a national juried...

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...