Category Archives: Local News
Fatal crash on Ottawa Beach Road
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 34-year-old Holland man has died in an Ottawa Beach Road traffic crash. The driver of the 2006 Ford sedan, a 22-year-old Holland woman, is in critical condition at Spectrum H...
Aug 17, 2021 Crash under investigation (Midwest Communications, Inc. image)
Zeeland Twp. hit-run victim identified
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Ottawa County Sheriff's Capt. Jake Sparks identified the woman killed on westbound I-196 east of 84th Avenue in Zeeland Township early Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. He identified the ...
Aug 16, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
UPDATE: Missing Allegan Area Teen Located
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The search for a 14-year-old girl from the Allegan area has ended. The Allegan County Sheriff's Office said that Raven McBride was located at an undisclosed location around ...
Aug 16, 2021 Raven McBride (photo courtesy Allegan County Sheriff's Dept.)
Power out, still, for nearly 30k Consumers customers
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) --- Consumers Energy officials say nearly all electric customers now have power, as utility crews continuing repairing damage caused by a series of storms that hit the state betwe...
Aug 16, 2021 Consumers Energy line workers. Courtesy, Consumers Energy
Impaired driving may have caused Georgetown Twp. crash
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Port Sheldon Road and 40th Avenue may have been the result of an impaired driver, according to hrs Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Chr...
Aug 15, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
UPDATED: Lake Michigan drowning victim found, identified
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A person has drowned in Lake Michigan about a mile off the Saugatuck shoreline, according to Allegan County Sheriff's Lt. Brett Ensfield. Sheriff's dive team members were summo...
Aug 15, 2021 Allegan County Lt. Brett Ensfield's office. File photo
Hit-and-Run Driver Sought in Fatal Pedestrian Incident Near Zeeland
Update: The victim has been identified as Kentwood resident Valerie Batema, 36. ZEELAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The search is on for a hit-and-run driver who apparently killed a woman near Zeeland's e...
Aug 15, 2021 Lake & McHenry County Scanner / CC
Harbor Humane Society Participating in Empty the Shelters Effort
WALKER, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The Lakeshore's animal shelter is participating in a effort from an arm of a nationally-known vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturer, based in suburban Grand Rapi...
Aug 15, 2021 Empty the Shelters August 2021 poster (image courtesy Bissell Pet Foundation)
COVID spike sends Allegan, Ottawa counties into red zone
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Just as the weather cools down. Allegan and Ottawa counties' COVID-19-transmission status has gotten red-hot. County health officials issued alerts Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, notin...
Aug 14, 2021 Allegan County COVID-19 free drive-thru tests are the Allegan Transportation building, 750 Airway Drive. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Benefit for Ottawa County Parks Foundation is Sunday
GEORGETOWN TWP. MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Looking for something to do this Sunday Aug. 15, 2021? Lakeshore Visual Arts Collective will be hosting a pop-up art sale, from 1 to 4 p.m., at Grand Ravines North Co...
Aug 13, 2021 Ottawa County Parks and Ottawa County Parks Foundation (image courtesy Ottawa County Parks and Recreation Commission)
