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When you drive up to the 2013 Parade of Homes entry at 7110 Weller Ct. NE, its farmhouse style does not create the impression that it's a mansion whose owners spent more than $1 million to build it.

Three voting precincts in the city's Third Ward will relocate for an August primary election, and two more in the First Ward will have to move before an election in November.

Grand Rapids Police Captain Eric Payne tells FOX17 a police standoff has come to a close without incident after lasting about 4 hours this evening.

Royale Runyon listens to his attorney speak during his prelim at the Kent County Courthouse before 61st District Court Judge Donald Passenger on Friday, May 24.

First United Methodist Church and the Class of 1971 from East Grand Rapids High School have raised more than $45,000 to build a fitness track at Martin Luther King Jr.

Proposed fee increases for various public services will get the city operating more like a business, administrators say.

The number of people in Michigan traveling this Memorial Day is expected to be close to the same as last year, but the people behind the "Pure Michigan" campaign say this big weekend for the travel industry is going to be kicking off a record breaking year for tourism.

The debut of Failure-Lab in Grand Rapids at the Wealthy Theatre would best be described as anything but a failure.

Attorney Craig Noland has joined McGraw Morris P.C. as the managing shareholder of its new Grand Rapids office, the Troy-based law firm announced Thursday, May 23.

West Michigan's fourth Bagger Dave's "legendary" burger tavern is opening in downtown Grand Rapids just in time for Memorial Day.

Amber Wilson is accused of attacking her mother and step father with an axe and a knife.

By the time the 2013 Spring Parade of Homes officially opens on Friday, May 24, the drop cloths on the aspen wood flooring and mud on the sidewalks at 7635 Luca Vista will be a dim memory for Tim VerStrate.

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Guests bid on items during the auction at the 20th Annual Bee Dazzling Spellebration Wednesday evening.

A school district failed to properly investigate allegations by two students that they were sexually assaulted at their Grand Rapids-area high school, the U.S. Department of Education said.

A sudden squall, snowflakes and a tornado top the list of Michigan weather events on this day in history .

A house recently completed by the Habitat for Humanity of Kent County was presented Wednesday to its new owner, Randi Challender.

Family and friends of Latrice Maze wipe their eyes during testimony in the prelim for Jahleel Hoskins, charged with the murder of Maze on Wednesday, May 22 at the Kent County Courthouse.

A Royal Oak-based film crew is visiting West Michigan this week to get footage for a Grand Rapids-specific Pure Michigan travel marketing commercial that airs June 3. "It's a very fast turnaround," said Michelle Begnoche, spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's marketing arm.