Category Archives: Local News

HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating two overnight unarmed robberies. One happened just before midnight Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, at the Raman Party Sto...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Although summertime is not necessarily sleepy time on the Hope College campus, with numerous camps held, the Holland school will spring back to life this weekend. The freshm...

LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Joblessness along the Lakeshore grew in July. In numbers posted on Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, seasonally unadjusted employment...

UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) - The issue of changing the way that county clerks statewide count absentee ballots has divided the Lakeshore's two top local election officials. Currently in Michigan, such count...

WEST OLIVE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - There is another addition to Ottawa County's substantial and continual investment in its parks system. Last Friday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony formally opened the Ottawa B...

BRADLEY, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - It has been two decades of growth for the Gun Lake Tribe. On Friday, it will be 20 years since the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians achieved formal feder...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – As the national debate over immigration reform rages on, a group of newcomers will savor what too many of us take somewhat for granted. Several dozen people from throu...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Can the squeaky wheel get the grease at a rough railroad crossing in downtown Holland? A caller to "WHTC Talk of the Town" brought up the obvious to Holland Mayor Nancy DeBo...

SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Even though National Weather Service officials in the Grand Rapids office at Gerald Ford Airport cautioned about staying away from the waters of Lake Michigan befo...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – As Kent County authorities believe that gang activity is behind a rash of gun store and cell phone store burglaries that stretch westward to the Lakeshore, one man who...