Grand Rapids MI

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids has named a new city engineer and is also expanding its retail support efforts in the engineer’s office, contracting with a specialist who will help guide businesses through construction disruptions. On Friday, May 8, the city announced Cindy Irving as Grand Rapids’...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Fifteen years ago this month, Grand Rapids residents rallied for a citywide lip sync to a live recording of Don McLean’s 1972 song “American Pie.”. It was a grassroots effort to show off the area, spearheaded by local event organizer Rob Bliss at the time, in response to Newsweek calling Grand Rapids a “dying city.”

Michigan drivers, it might be time to grip the steering wheel a little tighter. A newly released report has ranked the 20 most dangerous cities and townships in the state for car crashes, and the results paint a pretty sobering picture of road safety across Michigan. Whether you're a daily commuter, a weekend road tripper, or someone who just moved to the Mitten State...

Michigan has waited long enough. While the South has spent decades perfecting its biscuit game, the Great Lakes state finally gets its seat at the table. The state’s first location just landed, and it did not arrive quietly. It came loaded with something no other location in the country has, a live biscuit theater where you watch every layer get built right in front...

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The top track and field athletes around Grand Rapids will compete for championship hardware on Friday, when the six divisions of the OK Conference, along with the River Cities Alliance, hold their league championship meets. With regionals set to take place next week, Friday’s conference...

After more than two years of construction and fundraising, a brand-new apartment building and entrepreneurial space designed with artists in mind has opened in Grand Rapids, called The Emory Arts & Culture Hub.

If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. Grand Rapids’ new Acrisure Amphitheater welcomes Lionel Richie and The War and Treaty as its debut performers. Richie is scheduled to return to Michigan this summer, stopping in Detroit as part of his co-headlining run with Earth, Wind & Fire.

Dr. Jim O’Connell has been caring for homeless individuals since 1985, when he established the nation’s first medical respite program with 25 beds inside a Boston shelter. “And as we’ve learned, certainly in Boston and around the country, one of the leading causes of death among homeless people is actually cancer and heart disease and diabetes - things that we should be going out and...

A Grand Rapids man who spent time behind bars for opening fire on a federal agent is heading back to prison for peddling cocaine, fentanyl and tramadol while also having guns he was not supposed to have.