Category Archives: Local News
Crowdfunding Effort for Outdoor Skating Rink Underway
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 7, 2023) - Visitors and residents had better take a good look at the south face of Window on the Waterfront Park this week, for it will change permanently once the Tulip T...
May 07, 2023 Apr. 24, 2023; Holland, MI, USA; A final look at the Window on the Waterfront sign near the junction of East 6th Street and College Avenue before the park is renovated and College Avenue is extended following the 2023 Tulip Time Festival. Mandatory Credit: Gary Stevens-Midwest Communications
It's Day Two of the 2023 Tulip Time Festival
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 7, 2023) - Sunday is Day Two of the 94th Tulip Time Festival. All day events include historic walking tours at Window on the Waterfront Park and the Tulip Immersion Garden...
May 07, 2023 May 10, 2022; Holland Twp., MI, USA; The Tulip Time Festival Quilt Show at Beechwood Church. (photo Gary Stevens, Midwest Communications)
West Olive Man Loses Life in US-31 Crash
HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 6, 2023) - A 27-year-old West Olive man lost his life in a single-vehicle crash north of Holland before dawn on Saturday. According to Ottawa County Sheriff's Sergean...
May 06, 2023 Fatal Crash reported. (image © Midwest Communications)
Tulip Time Festival Officially Kicks Off on Saturday
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 6, 2023) - The 94th Tulip Time Festival begins in earnest on Saturday. While the Carnival began its run outside of the Heeringa Holland Civic Center Place on Friday, and t...
May 06, 2023 Tulip Time Run (file photo courtesy Tulip Time Festival)
UPDATE: One Arraigned, One Hospitalized After Domestic Assault in Jamestown
HUDSONVILLE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 5, 2023) - An 18-year-old Hudsonville man has been arraigned on charges stemming from a domestic assault situation in southeast Ottawa County on Thursday morning. On F...
May 05, 2023 Ottawa County Sheriff's Cruiser. Courtesy Ottawa County Sheriff's Office
Tulip Time Activities Underway; Festival Officially Begins Tomorrow
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 5, 2025) - Holland's annual signature event is here. It's the 94th edition of the Tulip Time Festival, and Executive Director Gwen Auwerda is confident that crowds will re...
May 05, 2023 Tulip Time Flowers (photo Dan Evans, Midwest Communications)
US 31 Construction To Take A Tulip Time Break
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 4, 2023) - Some good news for residents and festival goers alike as resurfacing work on southbound US-31 between 32nd Street and Central Avenue will be suspended for the T...
May 04, 2023
Ottawa County Sanctioned by Third Circuit Court
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 4, 2023) - Judge Fresard of the Third Circuit Court sanctioned Ottawa County for delaying the disbursement of $81 million in Opioid Settlement funds to 269 local governmen...
May 04, 2023
One Killed, One Arrested in Crash North of South Haven
CASCO TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 4, 2023) - A woman lost her life and a man is in custody following a fatal crash on Wednesday afternoon north of South Haven. According to Allegan County Sheriff's Serg...
May 04, 2023 Fatal Crash reported. (image © Midwest Communications)
Accident at the Tulip Time Carnival
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 3, 2023) - Today just before 11:30 a.m., officers and fire fighters of the HDPS responded to the parking lot area of the Holland Civic Center, where the rides for the carn...
May 03, 2023 May 4, 2023; Holland, MI, USA; Ferris Wheel on Tulip Time Carnival site. Mandatory Credit: Gary Stevens-Midwest Communications
