Allegan News

Despite vehement opposition from both K-12 and higher education administrators and teachers, a House bill tying teacher salaries to student performance was approved by the House Education Committee along party lines.

Mary Jo Cobb , a teacher at Mattawan Middle School , and Austin Langlinais, an eighth-grader at the school, have been named winners in the annual Michigan Letters about Literature contest.

A bulldozer from the Department of Natural Resources travels through the trees Thursday, May 16 during a woods fire in Egelston Township.

Victoria Nabors, pictured at an award ceremony for outstanding professor for the 2012/2013 school year, will be among the speakers at the motivational speaking event, "Be Encouraged" in Allegan on Sunday.

More lane closures and traffic backups are likely on Gerald R. Ford Freeway as another construction project gets underway this week.

A 79-year-old Otsego man was bound over for trial on open murder charges after a preliminary hearing yesterday.

According to the Allegan County Sheriff's Office, four 911 calls came in over the course of three hours on Tuesday night.

Brad Perkins, principal of Wyoming High School, and Mary Vandwater, a member of the school board, watching the election night results for a $53.1 million bond that would have benefited Wyoming schools, on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Wyoming City Hall, in Wyoming, Mich.

West Michigan voters will cast ballots Tuesday, May 7, for school districts seeking tax dollars to support students in Kent, Ottawa, Allegan and Barry counties.

Coco Jones and Austin Mahone are both performing at the Allegan County Fair in Allegan, Michigan on September 13, 2013.

Lake Allegan is one the most disgusting bodies of water we have in the area. The lake smells horrid, like a mixture of sulfur and rotting fish.

The Allegan County Board of Commissioners has passed a resolution urging state representatives to "consider all relevant information" on what are known as "smart meters" that monitor electricity on homes.

Allegan County commissioners have authorized spending another $175,000 on video cameras and other security equipment for the new jail.

Authorities in the city of Allegan have asked the public's help in staying out of a residential area around Ely Street and James Street, which has been closed since 6 a.m. because police are "taking extreme safety measures" in a "potentially dangerous" situation there.

Authorities have a three-unit apartment house surrounded as a resident has a gun and refuses to surrender.

If the cow bells, air horn and top-of-the-lung shouts from family members and friends were an indication, the audience members who assembled Sunday for Kalamazoo Valley Community College's 71st graduation ceremony were clearly a proud group.

Unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent in March, from 6.6 percent a year ago for the Grand Rapids-Wyoming metro area.

Equalization Director Blaine McLeod told county commissioners Thursday that recent data suggests "the floor of the market has been reached and recovery is emerging." Last year, the equalized valuation of the county's land, calculated as half the market value, was $5,001,363,254. For 2013, the total is $5,136,966,563, a 2.71 percent increase and the ... (more)

Phenicie has been dressing up and visiting residence halls around Central Michigan University's campus in a tutu, wings and headpiece, all decorated in condoms to promote Thursday's Sextival.

Allegan native and Western Michigan University graduate Helen Banks had her most recent short film accepted to the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner .