Grand Rapids MI

A 2022 East Grand Rapids graduate is back home in Michigan after experiencing the shooting at Brown University on Saturday, describing the incident as a wake-up call about campus safety.

A police department in West Michigan recently responded to a very interesting call that they'll never forget. Last week, the Walker Police Department received a call to a home with a deer in the basement that wouldn't leave. According to police, the deer somehow made its way into the home...

WALKER, MI -- Walker police worked to help a wayward deer out of a basement after it found its way into a home and didn’t want to leave. Walker police posted video of the effort on the department’s Facebook page on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The rescue happened Dec....

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A 100-year-old apple orchard in West Michigan has once again won gold for its apple cider. Engelsma’s Apple Barn of Walker recently won first place at the 27th annual Michigan Apple Cider Contest, marking its ninth first-place win at the competition since 2005. The...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A man charged with murder in the 2023 shooting death of Darryl Yarber was convicted last week. Dominike Sterling was charged with first-degree murder in Yarber's death in January 2025 following a yearlong investigation by Grand Rapids police. He was found guilty by a jury...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — There has been an increase in a drug-resistant fungus at Michigan hospitals since 2021. Candida auris (C. auris) is a type of yeast that can cause severe illness and spread easily among very sick patients in healthcare facilities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Odd-even parking is back in Grand Rapids. Here’s when you can and can’t park on your street to avoid tickets this winter.

Multifamily housing developers in Grand Rapids are walking into increasingly hostile receptions when they propose projects in single-family neighborhoods, opposition that’s starting to reshape their strategies for where and how they build. Case in point: More than 300 Grand Rapids residents packed a neighborhood...

Championship drag racing is coming back to Michigan for the first time since 1960, the National Hot Rod Association announced.

For the past couple of days, people in Sparta have been buzzing about the idea of a data center coming to the village.