Grand Rapids MI

FRUITPORT, MI — Severe winds lifted the roof off the gymnasium at Beach Elementary School, about 10 miles south of Muskegon. “The roof on the gym at Beach has blown off and there is significant flooding throughout the building,” Jason J. Kennedy, superintendent of Fruitport Community Schools, said in a statement.

A line of strong storms tore through the entire Michiana area Sunday afternoon, leaving widespread damage and power outages. Nearly every county in Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan is reporting trees down, powerlines down, and there are also several reports of trees that have fallen onto houses and parked cars.

A massive line of storms marching across Michigan late this afternoon and early this evening produced damaging winds topping 95 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The storm system that came into Michigan in the southwest corner of the state and moved east toward Ann Arbor, Detroit and The Thumb produced...

STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) — A vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash resulted in the arrest of a man who is allegedly connected to multiple crimes in Michigan and Indiana counties. Saturday, just before 4:30 p.m., the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office was told of a vehicle pursuit initiated...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A fast-moving storm spring storm system spurred dozens of damage reports on Sunday night throughout northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Downed trees and powerlines appeared to be the majority of the damage issues, many from the straight-line winds with gusts up to 70 mph that blew through the area...

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect through late this evening as thunderstorms move across southwest and south-central Lower Michigan. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) went with a severe thunderstorm watch until instead of a tornado watch. The reason is a line of thunderstorms is gelling together and expected...

LANSING, Mich.— After ice storms hit Northern lower Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer activated the State Emergency Operations Center or the SEOC. The SEOC was activated at noon on March 30th. The SEOC works with local officials and private sector partners to ensure resource needs are met. It was activated...

Looking at a map, it's easy to see why Tawas Point is touted as the "Cape Cod of the Midwest" by local tourism sites like Pure Michigan. The long, skinny, hook-shaped peninsula juts out into Tawas Bay, a somewhat protected coastline on Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron on the east coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula....

Employees of a once popular bar in Michigan were quite surprised when they showed up for work yesterday in Livonia and Auburn Hills. Can you imagine arriving to work and discovering the doors locked with a note informing you that the business is permanently closed?. According to a Facebook post...

Police are looking for the driver of the vehicle that hit a pedestrian early Sunday morning in Walker.