Grand Rapids MI

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Van Andel Institute is set to receive $5,409,432 in federal support through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funding, announced by Congresswoman Hillary Scholten (D-MI), will support a variety of medical research projects. “Van Andel Institute continues to make our state

The Polish community in Grand Rapids is working to keep Lucy Preston’s nonprofit mission alive after she was critically injured in a Plainfield Township home explosion that left her with fourth-degree burns.

There is a kind of place that makes you pull off the highway and forget where you were headed, and this orchard sitting just outside Grand Rapids is exactly where that road trip should end. The cider is pressed from apples grown on the property, the donuts come out of...

A West Michigan program is helping neighbors immigrating to the U.S learn English and reconnect with the medical careers they built in their home countries and addressing a shortage of medical workers

KENT COUNTY, Mich. – A Michigan man won $20 while playing the lottery. Then he turned that into $2 million. The man won the first prizes from $2 Blackjack tickets. He then used those winnings to buy the ticket that led to the second prize -- from the $2,000,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier.

A bicyclist was hit by a car in Kentwood Friday night, according to dispatchers.

CALEDONIA, MI -- Traffic on M-37 will shift into a new construction phase starting Monday, June 1, as part of a major rebuild project in Caledonia Township and the village of Caledonia. Southbound M-37 lane closures will be in place from Kraft Ave. to 76th St., while northbound lane closures...

MONTCALM COUNTY, Mich. — A Grand Rapids man is seriously hurt after a motorcycle crash on Friday, according to the Michigan State Police (MSP). In a post on X around 3:30 p.m., MSP said the preliminary investigation showed a motorcycle was traveling eastbound on I-96 near mile marker 78 at a high speed when the rider a

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Inside the Vander Jagt House Friday morning, there was an important meeting. A meeting that would help determine the home's future. In 2021, Tammy Jo and Max Budzynski bought the Vander Jagt. Tammy Jo was the original real estate agent for the home. She said their interest in it peaked when she le

HUDSONVILLE, Michigan — He can tell you about the grain. The hours of gluing and sanding. The way it flows like a waterfall down the sides. Max Kuperus can describe his brother's favorite bench in remarkable detail — right down to the hundreds of individual boards, perfectly aligned, that make up its top.