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Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) - State Rep. Greg VanWoerkom, who represents Grand Haven and neighboring communities, has announced that a Grand Haven dredging timeline has been set for late 2025. The representative met with officials from the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, the U.S. Army Corps of E...

(Lansing, MI) - State Superintendent Michael Rice is criticizing the Fiscal Year 2026 School Aid budget that passed the House Wednesday afternoon. Rice says the budget won't help to address early literacy issues. He says while he supports the per-pupil funding increase, lumping funds into block grants won't help any of...

(Grand Rapids, MI) -- Grand Valley State University economics professor and associate dean of the Seidman College of Business Paul Isely says the west Michigan economy will slow down for the rest of 2025. Isely says navigating tariffs is one of the biggest challenges for businesses right now and many companies pulled t...

GRAND HAVEN, MICH., -The Grand Haven Board of Light and Power (BLP) 2025 Customer Survey reflects high satisfaction levels with the utility's services and future programming. Overall customer satisfaction with the BLP reached 90.7%, which is 19.6% higher than the national average among other utilities. Customer respons...

Lansing, MI (WGHN) - The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) has declared an Air Quality Advisory for June 11, 2025, for elevated levels of ozone in southwestern counties of Michigan. Pollutants within those areas are expected to be in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG, Orange AQI)...

Ottawa County, MI (WGHN) - One finalist remains in the search for an Ottawa County Administrator. The June 11 events related to the Ottawa County Administrator search have been canceled following the withdrawal of finalist Mark Eisenbarth. Michael Tremblay, the remaining finalist, will continue in the process and parti...

(Lansing, MI) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is part of 15 attorneys general who are suing to stop the sale of machine gun-style trigger devices. The lawsuit is seeking to block a settlement between the Trump administration and Texas-based Rare Breed Triggers. The device allows a semi-automatic weapon such as ...

(Lansing, MI) - State House Republicans want to put "vaccine freedom" into Michigan's Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act. They say that would protect people from being discriminated against for housing, employment, school, and more regardless if they have been vaccinated for diseases or not. State Representative...

Grand Haven/Spring Lake- (WGHN) - Short-term (15 minutes) TOTAL closures for bridge maintenance are scheduled for this Wednesday night and Thursday night between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. on northbound and southbound US-31 over the Grand River. Follow MDOT's Grand Region on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/MDOT_West For up-to-date ...

Coopersville, MI (WGHN) - A 92-year-old Caledonia man was injured in a rollover crash Monday evening around 6:20 p.m. in Coopersville, after failing to stop at a stop sign. According to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, the elderly man was traveling northbound on 48th Avenue when he failed to yield at the stop sign a...

West Olive, MI (WGHN) - Ottawa County Board of Commissioners meet today at 9:00 a.m. for a Planning and Policy Committee meeting and then Finance and Administration meets at 10:30 a.m. It's expected public comment will address the administrator search and how the county is down to only three candidates. Those three ca...

(Grand Rapids, MI) - West Michigan food pantries will get a boost from the Meijer LPGA Classic this week. The event begins Thursday at Blythefield Country Club and supports Meijer's Simply Give program that aims to help stock food pantries. LPGA pro Brittany Lincicome toured the Northwest Food Pantry in Grand Rapids ye...

(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin and Congressman Jack Bergman are urging President Trump to approve a disaster relief request for March's ice storm that devastated northern Michigan. The Democratic senators and Republican representative sent a letter to Trump urging his support. The storm...

(Lansing, MI) - An overwhelming majority of Michigan State Police troopers vote no confidence in the leadership of Colonel James Grady the Second and Lieutenant Colonel Aimee Brimacombe. Only 18 out of the nearly 12-hundred polled support the two. Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she is still supporting Brady, who she na...

GRAND HAVEN, MI - Downtown Grand Haven is about to get even more fun for families this summer with the return of NORA Kid's Nights! Held every Tuesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. in the First Block of Washington Avenue at Harbor Drive, these themed nights offer hands-on activities, entertainment, and community fun for kid...

Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) - Community members are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and join in reading aloud, or simply attend to listen and support the effort. The reading is organized by ONTRAC (Ottawa North Tri-Cities Action Committee), a multipartisan political action group committed to civic education and in...

(Holland Township, MI) (WGHN) - Police are looking for the suspects who slashed tires on over 45 vehicles in Holland Township between midnight and 7 a.m. Saturday. Most of the damage was to vehicles on Millpond Drive, and others that were parked at businesses on Felch Street were also damaged. The Ottawa County Sherif...

(Mackinac Island, MI) - The CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corporations says the state's slogan is working to draw people to the state. Quentin Messer says the Make it in Michigan slogan, which was unveiled by Governor Whitmer in 2023, is allowing the state to have an elevator pitch on what Michigan's economi...

(Detroit, MI) - Dozens of activists gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in downtown Detroit Sunday to protest against the ICE sweeps and arrests in Los Angeles, California. They included Kassandra Rodriguez with Detroit Community Action Committee as they were demonstrating against President ...

(Grand Rapids, MI) - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is urging residents to take precautions outdoors as cases of tick-borne diseases continue to climb. Lyme disease cases have jumped 168 percent since 2020, while anaplasmosis infections have increased nearly fivefold. Both illnesses are spread by ...

(Grand Rapids, MI) - Delta Airlines is offering new round trip direct flights to Detroit Lions away games at Ford International Airport. Ford International Airport marketing and communications manager Haley Abbas says there will be five routes available starting this fall. Tickets went on sale Saturday.

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing $2 million to resurface 3 miles of M-45 (Lake Michigan Drive) between Standale and Allendale. The project kicks off Monday, June 9 and will continue through mid August of this year. "Across Michigan, we are moving dirt and fixing ...

(Grand Haven Township/Allendale) WGHN- A section of Lake Michigan Drive will be closed for road work with the Michigan Department of Transportation. Tomorrow, June 9 through Saturday, June 14 on M-45 (Lake Michigan Drive) between US-31 and 68th Avenue daily lane closures will occur. The work is weather dependent. An...

On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners met to identify finalists in its search for a new County Administrator. From a competitive pool of applicants, three candidates will move forward to the next interview stage. The applicant pool included professionals from across the country with exten...

(Grand Rapids, MI) - The state of Michigan is under an air quality advisory until noon today as a result of the smoke blowing through the state from Canadian wildfires. Corewell Health's Dr. Julia Becker says she has had patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease experience much worse symptoms than ...

Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) - Grand Haven Department of Public Safety responded to a vehicle fire incident at the Citgo Gas Station Thursday morning. Upon arrival, responding units found the vehicle's hood compartment fully involved, with a risk of exposure to surrounding areas. Public Safety Officers promptly extinguished ...

Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) - During Wednesday night's special board meeting, the Grand Haven Area Public Schools Board of Education approved a one-time Voluntary Severance Plan (VSP) for eligible Grand Haven Education Association (GHEA) and Grand Haven Area Professional School Administrators Association (GHAPSAA) members. ...

(Tallmadge Township, MI) - A 20-year-old Jenison man is charged with discharging a firearm in a building causing death for a shooting that killed Grand Valley State University student Connor Lotterman last month. Westen Meulenberg is accused of firing several shots into the floor of an upstairs bedroom at a party off t...

(Kalamazoo, MI) - Governor Whitmer hosted a roundtable discussion yesterday at Western Michigan University to lay out the results of possible large funding cuts to Medicaid. The U.S. House has already approved the bill which would slash billions of dollars from Medicaid and leave millions in the country without healthc...

Grand Rapids, MI (WGHN) - The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has declared an Air Quality Advisory due to elevated levels of smoke from Canadian wildfires. Pollutants, in the form of fine particulates (PM 2.5), are expected to be in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups range. The Air Quality A...