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New Rec Center Plans Highlight Holland City Council Meeting Agenda
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Another dream of a family who has made some dreams come true around the Tulip City ...
21h ago
UPDATE: Ottawa Co. Board Committee Interviewed Administrator Hopefuls; No Decision Made
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Four finalists from 19 applicants for the vacant Ottawa County Administrator pos...
Nov 20, 2024
The Great Thanksgiving Banquet is a Week Away
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - It's a week to go before one of the Lakeshore's most visible and successful communi...
Nov 20, 2024
Homeless Awareness Focus of Forum, Week Along Lakeshore
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 19, 2024) - As Thanksgiving approaches, the needs of the homeless are spotlighted on this Hunge...
Nov 19, 2024
Zeeland Couple Hospitalized in Allendale Pileup Collision
ALLENDALE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 19, 2024) - A four-vehicle pileup in Allendale late on Monday afternoon ended with a cou...
Nov 19, 2024
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New Rec Center Plans Highlight Holland City Council Meeting Agenda
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Another dream of a family who has made some dreams come true around the Tulip City ...
21h ago
UPDATE: Ottawa Co. Board Committee Interviewed Administrator Hopefuls; No Decision Made
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Four finalists from 19 applicants for the vacant Ottawa County Administrator pos...
Nov 20, 2024
The Great Thanksgiving Banquet is a Week Away
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - It's a week to go before one of the Lakeshore's most visible and successful communi...
Nov 20, 2024
Homeless Awareness Focus of Forum, Week Along Lakeshore
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 19, 2024) - As Thanksgiving approaches, the needs of the homeless are spotlighted on this Hunge...
Nov 19, 2024
Zeeland Couple Hospitalized in Allendale Pileup Collision
ALLENDALE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 19, 2024) - A four-vehicle pileup in Allendale late on Monday afternoon ended with a cou...
Nov 19, 2024
State
Secretary of State Benson cheers passage of bills restricting firearms at polling locations
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two bills have been passed by lawmakers that would restrict firearms at polling locations while th...
Nov 19, 2024
Former Coldwater prison guard gets jail time/probation for meth possession
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A former corrections officer at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater was sentenced on Monda...
Nov 19, 2024
Gas prices up 9-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's more expensive to fill the gas tank in Michigan compared to last Monday. Triple-A Michigan s...
Nov 18, 2024
General Motors announces lay offs
DETROIT -- General Motors Co. today laid off roughly 1,000 people with a majority of those apparently working out of the auto...
Nov 16, 2024
Kalamazoo man headed for prison dies while trying to escape transport van
BIG RAPIDS, MI - A Kalamazoo man has died while apparently trying to escape a sheriff's department transport van in Mecosta C...
Nov 15, 2024
Local Sports
Lakers Win, Blackhawks & Broncos Fall on Tuesday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Trevon Gunter scored 19 points as Grand Valley State's men won in the Chicagoland area ...
23h ago
Red Wings Lose Again, Bulls Best Pistons in Monday Sports Action
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 19, 2024) - Macklin Celebrini scored 46 seconds into overtime as the San Jose Sharks celebrated ove...
Nov 19, 2024
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Hope, GVSU Receive NCAA Grid Tourney Assignments; Lions Romp, Bears Blocked on Sunday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 17, 2024) - NCAA football tournament bids were announced on Sunday. Undefeated Hope College gets a ...
Nov 18, 2024
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Hope, GVSU Finish Regular Season Grid Action with Wins; Lions Host Jags on WHTC Sunday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 16, 2024) - Ben Wellman threw for two touchdowns and Tyler Amos ran for two more as Hope completed ...
Nov 17, 2024
Dux Advance in Prep Grid Tourney; Hope, GVSU, Pistons Register Hoops Wins
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 15, 2025) - In the state high school football tournament, Zeeland West defeated visiting Forest Hil...
Nov 16, 2024
National Sports
NFL's massive ratings weather election season
The NFL's television ratings remained strong in the wake of the recent election season. An average of 17.5 million viewers ha...
30m ago
Women's Top 25 roundup: UConn's Geno Auriemma tops D-I wins list
Geno Auriemma became the all-time winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I college basketball, men's or women's, on...
1h ago
LPGA Awards: Nelly Korda takes top two honors
Nelly Korda capped her best season by capturing the top two honors on Wednesday at the Rolex LPGA Awards in Naples, Fla. The ...
1h ago
UConn's Geno Auriemma becomes all-time winningest D-I coach
Geno Auriemma became the all-time winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I college basketball, men's or women's, on...
2h ago
76ers' Paul George injures left leg, exits game at Grizzlies
Paul George of the Philadelphia 76ers was injured in the opening seconds of the third quarter of Wednesday's game against hos...
2h ago
National
New COP29 proposal shows wide gap persists on climate funding deal
By William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh ...
1h ago
Lutnick's China ties draw fire after Trump taps him to lead US in trade, tariffs
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investment banker Howard Lutnick's exposure to China came into sharp relief on Wedn...
1h ago
Duct-taped banana goes for $6.2 million in Sotheby's art auction
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A piece of art that is little more than a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at auction for $6.2 m...
2h ago
US says 13.5 tons of deadly gas released at Texas refinery in Oct incident
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said on Wednesday that 27,000 pounds (13.5 tons) of de...
4h ago
US arrests homeless man in New York Stock Exchange bomb plot
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement on Wednesday arrested a homeless Florida man and charged him with plotting ...
5h ago
World
Former UK deputy PM Prescott dies, PA Media says
(Reuters) - John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died, PA Media repor...
19m ago
FAA eases Haiti flight ban as US airlines permitted in north of country
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday modified a ban on U.S. airlines operating in...
1h ago
Malaysian man to be publicly caned at mosque for Islamic crime of close proximity
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A 42-year-old father of five faces a public caning at a mosque in Malaysia after being convicted of ...
1h ago
New COP29 proposal shows wide gap persists on climate funding deal
By William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh ...
1h ago
Mexico's lower house votes to abolish autonomous bodies
By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday a measure to abolish most o...
3h ago
Business
Thai economy to grow 2.7% this year, beat 2025 forecast, PM says
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's economy is expected to grow 2.7% this year, helped by an anticipated annual rise of 28% in for...
56m ago
Exclusive-China advisers call for steady 5% 2025 economic growth goal, stronger stimulus
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese government advisers are recommending that Beijing should maintain an economic growth...
57m ago
GQG Partners' stock plunges over 20% on US bribe, fraud charges against India's Adani
(Reuters) - GQG Partners, which has a near 20% stake in India's Adani Group, saw its Australia-listed shares plunge 23% on Th...
57m ago
Starbucks considers selling stake in Chinese business, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) -Starbucks is exploring options for its Chinese operations, including the possibility of selling a stake in the bus...
58m ago
India's Adani Group sees $30 billion in value wiped off after US indictments
By Sethuraman N R and Bharath Rajeswaran (Reuters) -Shares of Adani Group companies lost about $28 billion in market value in...
58m ago
Politics
Lutnick's China ties draw fire after Trump taps him to lead US in trade, tariffs
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investment banker Howard Lutnick's exposure to China came into sharp relief on Wedn...
1h ago
Trump likely to pick Johns Hopkins surgeon, COVID mandate critic Makary for FDA, sources say
By Stephanie Kelly and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely choose Johns Hopkins surgeon an...
6h ago
Trump planning to tap loyalist Vought to lead OMB, sources say
By Gram Slattery and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is planning to tap conservative loyalist Russel...
7h ago
Joe Biden turns 82 years old, a first for a sitting US president
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden turned 82 years old on Wednesday, an age milestone never before reached by a sitting com...
9h ago
Senators want Biden administration to back hiking mandatory pilot retirement age
(Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators including incoming Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday urged the Biden ad...
9h ago
Health
Novartis raises annual sales guidance until 2028
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Novartis on Thursday raised its medium-term sales guidance, predicting 6% annual growth through 2028, d...
7m ago
Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for...
3h ago
Jazz Pharmaceuticals receives FDA approval for biliary tract cancer treatment
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals' drug for the treatment of a type of biliary t...
5h ago
Trump likely to pick Johns Hopkins surgeon, COVID mandate critic Makary for FDA, sources say
By Stephanie Kelly and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely choose Johns Hopkins surgeon an...
6h ago
Kura Oncology to partner with Kyowa Kirin for blood cancer therapy
(Reuters) - Kura Oncology said on Wednesday it will collaborate with Japan's Kyowa Kirin to develop and commercialize the blo...
7h ago
Science
Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for...
3h ago
Scientists announce progress toward ambitious atlas of human cells
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as t...
13h ago
Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it's unclear
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes...
20h ago
Findings by dark energy researchers back Einstein's conception of gravity
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of ...
Nov 20, 2024
Spacex launches sixth Starship rocket from Texas
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its sixth Starship test flight to space on Tuesday from Texas, eyeing an array of imp...
Nov 19, 2024
Technology
Google must divest Chrome to restore competition in online search, DOJ says
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and ...
1h ago
BOJ's Ueda warns AI could bring new financial stability risks
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday central banks must be mindful that techno...
1h ago
Bitcoin breaks $95,000 for first time on optimism over Trump crypto plans
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bitcoin's march toward $100,000 made further ground on Thursday as investors bet a friendlier U.S. regu...
2h ago
Australia launches 'landmark' bill to ban social media for children under 16
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ...
3h ago
Nvidia's supply snags hurting deliveries but mask booming demand
(Corrects to add Bengaluru to dateline) By Stephen Nellis and Aditya Soni SAN FRANCISCO/BENGALURU (Reuters) -Nvidia's revenue...
4h ago
Entertainment
Cirque du Soleil picks Berlin for first permanent European show
BERLIN (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil will kick off its first permanent European show next year in Berlin's central Potsdamer P...
13h ago
Comcast to spin off some cable TV networks as streaming dominates
(Reuters) -Comcast plans to divest the bulk of its once-coveted NBCUniversal cable TV assets, including MSNBC and CNBC, as th...
15h ago
'Rust' gets low-key debut, honours cinematographer killed on set
By Malgorzata Wojtunik TORUN, Poland (Reuters) - Alec Baldwin's Western "Rust" premiered at a low-key Polish film f...
15h ago
One Direction stars join mourners at Liam Payne's funeral
By Ben Makori AMERSHAM, England (Reuters) - The former members of boy band "One Direction" were among the mourners ...
15h ago
Indonesia can reach net zero emissions before 2050, president says
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is optimistic it can reach net zero emissions before 2050, a decade earlier than previously tar...
19h ago