Caledonia News

A truck driver was released from prison Friday after serving two years for the traffic deaths of four Taylor University students and a university staff member.

The student victim of a Wayland Union High School hallway beating, caught on a cell phone camera and posted on the Internet, is fearful of ridicule from other students when school starts.

A fifth-grade teacher at Caledonia's Dutton Elementary School has been placed on paid administrative leave after being arraigned for possession of cocaine.

Two men are recovering after two separate motorcycle crashes involving deer. Both happened near Caledonia in Kent County.

Did farmland preservation doom Kent County incumbents? By Kyla King Five years after its creation, a controversial program that aims to preserve farmland in Kent County still is causing political trouble for ...

Kent County deputies are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash in Gaines Township.

A 20-year-old Caledonia man died from injuries he suffered after his motorcycle rear-ended a Jeep around 8:25 a.m. Friday, the Kent County Sheriff's Department said.

Voters generous with millages, tough on incumbents The Grand Rapids Press Voters were angry enough to send more than two dozen incumbents packing in township and county board races Tuesday, but were mostly ...

Katelynne Spaans has been raising and showing cows for half of her 14 years. And, sometimes, it strikes her how different her life is from most of her peers.

Monday, two West Michigan schools will be helping their students deal with the loss of two classmates.

While searching the creek for sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, Landon McCrath uncovered an ancient stone of another kind.

Friday, July 25, 2008 12:15 PM CDT CALEDONIA - Tradition, heritage and racism were among issues brought before the Lowndes County School District Board of Education during a Thursday night community meeting.

Head-on crash on Kalamazoo Avenue injures three By Garret M. Ellison KENTWOOD -- Three people were injured, at least one critically, in a head-on crash Thursday on Kalamazoo Avenue SE, north of 60th Street.

Kentwood, Caledonia students lobby for levy for new library By Julie Makarewicz KENTWOOD -- Dylan Rogers jumped on the hay wagon and began arranging oversized books with titles such as "Lord of the Flies," ...

Brad and Cindy Masse love spending time outside at their lakefront house, so the desire for an outdoor kitchen was natural.

One person died after an explosion and fire this morning at a home near Gun Lake, fire officials said.

A police pursuit throughout Allegan County of a motorcyclist ended in a crash miles later Saturday morning.

Robert Wallace is a Dockers kind of guy. Like most men, he buys off the rack for much of his wardrobe.

Nothing says "Scotland" like the great Highland bagpipe, that unwieldy contraption of air, tubing, and hide.

Dear Heloise: I wanted to remind readers of one very important thing that people should do when leaving their pets in the care of someone else.