Big Rapids News

Sheriff's officials have identified Steven E. Blankenship as the motorcycle driver who was critically injured after striking a deer near Big Rapids on Thursday.

These institutions are not rated by Bauer Financial because they are too new or, in the case of credit unions, have less than $1.5 million in assets or are not insured by the National Credit Union ...

Record numbers of young people headed out in search of big salmon Friday as part of the West Shore Bank Youth Classic.

Hide Video A motorcyclist is hospitalized with life threatening injuries after hitting a deer in Mecosta County.

A legal battle drags on between Frankfort and a former city police officer with a checkered past.

It's the last day for The National Cherry Festival and the big finale includes the big parade through downtown Traverse City.

Mecosta County Deputies want your help in finding a motorcyclist who evaded them Saturday evening.

Though it's far from becoming a reality, Oceana County's Elbridge Township could be home to the second commercial wind farm in the state and the first in West Michigan.

Ferris buying an emergency broadcast system By Kristi Jourdan BIG RAPIDS -- To improve security, Ferris State University is buying an outdoor broadcasting system that will blare emergency messages campuswide.

U.S. Army Capt. Jeffary Hoose watches as his daughter, Meeghan, 10, pins a Bronze Star Medal with combat V on his uniform as his wife, Kristi Hoose, looks on.

A Mecosta County nursing home could lose its medicaid and medicare funding. Metron of Big Rapids performed poorly on recent federal inspections.

A local nursing home could lose their medicare and medicaid funding. A notice in the newspaper has families of people living in the facility worried.

Log jams along the Pine River in Manistee and Wexford counties prompted the U.S. Forest Service to halt traffic on the waterway, something that could equate to thousands of dollars in lost revenue for some area ...

Authorities say a man has been charged with murdering and dismembering a woman whose body was found in a northwest Lower Michigan swamp.

A Bloomfield Township man accused of killing of his live-in girlfriend was arraigned this morning on an open murder charge and mutilation of a body.

Laura Sue Poppema and Travis James Thompson are engaged and planning a June 27, 2008, wedding.

Posted by The National Weather Service June 15, 2008 13:56PM The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 9 p.m. this evening for the following 23 counties: In southwest ...

Service is slowly being restored to Consumers Energy and HomeWorks Tri-County Electric Cooperative customers after weekend storms blasted central and southern Lower Michigan, but some customers might not get ...

Sandra Marie Charania and Cory Edward Miller, both of Grand Rapids, have announced their wedding engagement.

Web Editor: Chris Zoladz 5 mins ago Consumers Energy is working to restore power to 48,000 customers across the state following this weekend's severe storms.