Grand Rapids MI

Doctors are taught to listen, only then are they able to address a problem or health concern a patient may have. Dr. Kathleen Romito has been listening, all too often recently, to the problems associated with noise coming from nearby pickleball courts. What effect can exposure to pickleball noise have?

GRAND RAPIDS (WOOD-AM) - A murder suspect in the Kent County Jail is facing a new charge. Sheriff's deputies say Dominike Sterling passed a note to an inmate to give to Tyriq Bettison, telling him to get a piece of metal sharpened. Bettison received the note, but the second inmate...

It is always great to hear when senior citizens are still active later in life. One West Michigan senior is still swinging the golf club at 95. I love it when I drive by a park and a group of senior citizens are working out in a group, taking walks, or even reading. What these things do is keep senior physcially and...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The grocery store stopped being a place just to shop for essentials a long time ago. It is also a place where people meet and socialize. I have never gone grocery shopping and not run into a friend, family member, colleague, parishoner, neighbor or acquaintance. Admittedly, sometimes I want to go...

The suspect in a May shooting that resulted in the death of a 19-year-old GVSU student in Tallmadge Township has waived his preliminary examination. Westen Meulenberg, 20, has been bound over to Ottawa County's 20th Circuit Court with a jury trial scheduled for Aug. 20 under Judge Jon Hulsing. Meulenberg, of Jenison,...

The Richmond Park Pool in Grand Rapids is temporarily closed on Saturday due to contamination, the city said.

Who knew that Michigan had so many fallout shelters?. In the 50s and 60s, discussions about the potential need for fallout shelters were very common. After all, it hadn't even been a decade since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945). In the aftermath, America set up the Federal Civil Defense...

A man accused of attacking a Grand Rapids Township fire lieutenant in November, shoving his thumb into the lieutenant’s eye, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A brand new experience is coming to 555 Monroe Avenue during ArtPrize this year. Arborialis: An ArtPrize Experience is a family-friendly installation that will immerse visitors in an inflatable light and color exhibit. Created by the UK-based company Architects of Air, the installation invites...

U.S. Representative Hillary Scholten assembles Lowering Cost Caucus to address "affordability crisis," Gov. Whitmer's MI budget adds more support for victims of crime, Latino business leaders from across Michigan gather at GVSU's Seidman Center for Business, and Grand Rapids achieves the highest certification for...