Ottawa County spent $62,000 Tuesday, Aug. 26, for property that will create about seven miles of continuos public land along the Grand River.

There's good news and bad news when it comes to Holland's capital improvements budget.

More people in West Michigan are hitting the bottom economically. The U.S. Census Bureau shows the poverty level in Muskegon exploded in 2007, increasing from 11.4 percent of the population in 2000 to 15.6 ...