Village of Baldwin hopes a prison contract can revive the area
The tiny village of Baldwin is hoping a private prison contract bringing thousands of inmates from California to Michigan will help revitalize the area. Baldwin is 65 miles north of Grand Rapids.
View ArticleMore coyotes in West Michigan
Coyotes are opportunistic animals. They'll just as soon go after your cat as they would a rabbit in the wild.So if you live in an area where coyotes are abundant, you might see them as a...
View ArticleReport: AT&T to cut jobs in West Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press reports that AT&T plans to cut 110 union jobs in West Michigan. The paper reports:The West Michigan job losses are part of a total of 371 jobs being eliminated by the...
View ArticleWest Michigan economy in the middle of “significant turnaround”
The annual West Michigan Economic forecast was held today in Grand Rapids. Hari Singh is an economist at Grand Valley State University. He expects employment will increase 2% in the region this year .
View ArticleCourt says resident can challenge tribe's casino plans
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Wayland Township resident has the legal standing to sue to stop the development of a casino.The Gun Lake Tribe of Pottawatomi Indians recently announced their...
View ArticleImmigration bust in West Michigan
Update 4:41p.m.:77 people are in custody following a 4-day operation in West Michigan by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.Federal agents arrested the men and women in 7 counties;...
View ArticleDel Shannon's "Runaway" tops charts 50 years ago this week
Fifty years ago this week, "Runaway" by Del Shannon was the Number One song in the U.S.It was the first rock 'n' roll song by a West Michigan-born artist to hit the top.He was born in Grand Rapids, and...
View ArticlePalisades nuke plant restarts after week shutdown
Operators of the Palisades nuclear plant say they've restarted the power generator on the Lake Michigan shoreline after a one-week shutdown following a mechanical problem. Authorities say the plant...
View ArticleEconomist expects Grand Rapids economy will continue to grow, slowly, in 2012
The Grand Rapids economy grew faster than predicted this year and economic forecasters say growth will continue into 2012.George Erickcek is an economist at the Upjohn Institute for employment...
View ArticleEconomists expect modest growth in Grand Rapids area will continue
The Grand Rapids area economy will continue to grow at a modest pace in 2012. Economists at Grand Valley State University are predicting employment growth between 1.5 and 2-percent this year.GVSU...
View ArticleMichigan company to expand after getting $10.4 million military contract
Riveer Environmental in South Haven will nearly triple in size to accommodate a new $10.4 million contract with the U.S. Army, according to the Kalamazoo Gazette:Riveer Environmental has been...
View ArticleFrost wipes out juice grapes in SW Michigan
A devastating frost has wiped out grapes grown for juice in southwestern Michigan. John Jasper, a surveyor for Welch's Foods, tells TV station ABC57 that he went through hundreds of acres before even...
View ArticleAmway to build new facility, add jobs, in Michigan
Amway plans to spend up to $81 million to build a new facility in West Michigan.The direct-sales company says it received a $1.6 million grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for the...
View ArticleGrand Rapids lawyer Miles is new US prosecutor
Western Michigan has a new top federal prosecutor.Patrick Miles Jr. took the oath of office today at the federal courthouse in Grand Rapids. He's a 44-year-old Grand Rapids lawyer who was nominated by...
View ArticlePastor in West Michigan accused of embezzling more than $100,000
MLive reports the Pastor of a church with around 750 members confessed to turning in receipts for reimbursement that were never approved.More from MLive:A Kentwood pastor has allegedly confessed to...
View ArticleWest Michigan economy forecasted to grow in 2013, but at a little slower pace
Economists predict the economy in West Michigan will grow at a slow but steady pace this year.“I mean we’re really looking at another year that feels like last year which isn’t so bad,” Paul Isley,...
View ArticleEditorial pays homage to Pete Hoekstra
Representative Pete Hoekstra came into office in the 103rd Congress in 1993. He's going out in the 111th Congress at the end of this year.Hoekstra announced his retirement in December 2008 when he...
View ArticleVillage of Baldwin hopes a prison contract can revive the area
The tiny village of Baldwin is hoping a private prison contract bringing thousands of inmates from California to Michigan will help revitalize the area. Baldwin is 65 miles north of Grand Rapids.
View ArticleWaterfront Film Festival will go on, despite power outage in South Haven
The show will go on tonight in South Haven.It looked for a while this morning that the start of the 15th annual Waterfront Film Festival might be delayed. Last night’s wind storm knocked out power to...
View ArticlePalisades nuke plant restarts after 43-day outage
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Operators have restarted the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan after finishing repairs to a water tank that leaked slightly radioactive water into...
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