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KENT COUNTY, MI – The mother of Silas “Si” Alan-Scot Palmer, 4, who drowned recently, remembered her son as a caring and loving little boy. He drowned Friday, July 25, at Long Lake in Kent County’s Solon Township. If you purchase a product or register for...

It was started as a space for community, where women could gather in fellowship, to teach and to learn. It hosted presidents and Susan B. Anthony, it hosted lectures and performances.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A former seasonal worker at John Ball Zoo has been sentenced to jail after being accused of taking up-skirt photos of visitors, including a minor. Steve Pook, 69, will serve 180 days in jail and three years' probation after pleading guilty to using a computer to commit a crime and two counts of...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – If you see a drone hovering above a parking lot in downtown Grand Rapids, it could be part of a parking study being led by the city. The city is considering using drones to collect data on capacity and utilization of parking downtown, including when and where parking is used at different times of...

Joe Bielecki: I like to start out by defining terms, and I think it would be a good place to start with kind of differentiating a tenant's union from a labor union. I think a lot more people are probably familiar with labor unions, where a bunch of employees get together, and they collectively bargain for better pay,...

Anyone who has entered a mall since the COVID-19 pandemic will have noticed one thing: how empty they feel. In-person retailers have struggled to attract customers compared to online shopping, with malls being the most evident sign of this struggle. Taking a look at Rivertown Crossing in Grandville, the store is...

A Bridge Street meadery will shut its doors for good, blaming a sharp drop in sales on the city’s closure of a nearby public parking lot.

In a press release on Thursday, Utz Brands announced it planned to close its Grand Rapids manufacturing facility, reducing the number of its plants from eight to seven.

The owner of a Grand Rapids bar says she'll likely have to close its doors.

What an honor it is for Michigan to make some top 25 lists in America and the world. Are we proud?. Michigan cities made the Lawn Starter.com list of the dirtiest cities in the U.S. and the AQI list for most polluted cities. What an honor?. The "dirtiest city list"...