Category Archives: Local News
Jobless Rates Stayed Stable Along Lakeshore
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Dec. 1, 2022) - Joblessness stayed steady along the Lakeshore in October. In numbers released on Wednesday by the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget, unempl...
Dec 01, 2022 Unemployment News (image © Midwest Communications)
It's the One-Year Anniversary of Cassidy Appointment in Holland Schools & the Oxford High Shooting
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 30, 2022) - While much of the state will spend this Wednesday remembering the events of November 30, 2021, when four persons were killed in a mass shooting at Oxford High...
Nov 30, 2022 Holland School Superintendent Nick Cassidy (photo courtesy Holland Public Schools)
UPDATE: Body of Missing Wayland Area Man Found on North Side
HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 29, 2022) - The search for a missing 42-year-old Wayland area man has ended tragically. On Tuesday, the Allegan County Sheriff's Department reported that members of ...
Nov 29, 2022 Avel Martinez (photo courtesy Allegan Co. Sheriff's Dept.)
Giving Tuesday is Today
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 29, 2022) - Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday have all come and gone over the past four days, but don't forget about Giving Tuesday. Now in its tenth ye...
Nov 29, 2022 Community Action House's Food Club/Opportunity Hub (photo courtesy Community Action House)
Holland Woman Sentenced in June Burglary, Awaits Hearing on November Crime
GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 29, 2022) - A 25-year-old Holland woman was sentenced on charges stemming from a summer incident in which a home on Holland's North Side was burgled in broad daylight...
Nov 29, 2022 Alyssa Aplin (photo courtesy Ottawa County Sheriff's Dept.)
Beloved Police K9 Officer Passes
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 28, 2022) - The Holland Department of Public Safety is heartbroken to have to announce the unexpected passing of K9 Saro. Saro was with his handler, Officer Jeremy Schoen...
Nov 28, 2022 Holland Department of Public Safety policeman Jeremy Schoen and his K-9 partner Saro (Junebug Photography photo courtesy Holland Department of Public Safety)
Week of Holiday Festivities Begins Tonight in Zeeland
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 28, 2022) - Now that Thanksgiving is in the rear view mirror, it's full steam ahead this week with Christmas less than four weeks away. The holiday festival spotlight shi...
Nov 28, 2022 The city of Zeeland's Christmas advertisement (image courtesy City of Zeeland)
Saugatuck City Council to Meet; Cellular, Broadband Expansion Plans Moving Forward
SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 28, 2022) - Work on improving cellular service and broadband access in Lakeshore communities continues. In his update notes ahead of tonight's biweekly Saugatuck City C...
Nov 28, 2022 Saugatuck city sign. File photo
I-196 Snarled by Crash Into River Near Grandville
GEORGETOWN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 25, 2022) - A 47-year-old Byron Center man was injured in a single-vehicle crash near the Ottawa-Kent county line on Friday evening. According to Ottawa County Sheriff...
Nov 25, 2022 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
UPDATE: Assault Suspect in Northern Ottawa County Incidents Arrested
WEST OLIVE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 23, 2022) - A 38-year-old man wanted for questioning in a string of assaults of women in the Grand Haven and Coopersville area last month is now in custody. According ...
Nov 23, 2022 Nicholas Andrew Lindeman (photo courtesy Ottawa County Sheriff's Dept.)
