Kent County News

Michigan State Police are investigating a three-vehicle crash that killed two people Saturday night and injured others, a Kent County police dispatcher confirmed.

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.

A judge could hear evidence against Royale Runyon today in the murder of his half-brother, Mahdi Hayes, during a spurt of homicides in December 2012 .

John Ball Zoo Society members on Thursday approved an historic vote that moves the 122-year-old zoo toward reorganizing into a non-profit, public-private partnership.

Kathy Hubert, on right, and her daughter, Victoria, watch as Kent County officials assess the scene of a road commission truck crashed into an Algoma Township house on Thursday, May 16, after a two-vehicle crash.

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.

A friend and a cousin of Jahleel Hoskins say he's admitted to killing his girlfriend and throwing her body in a Dumpster.

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

A study released by the Brookings Institution showed that the recession slowed, but did not halt, the gradual shifting of jobs from Grand Rapids to the region's suburbs.

Jim Olson, founder of FLOW of Michigan, leads a meeting with citizens at at meeting in Cannon Township on Wednesday, May 22.

Yogi, a male grizzly, explores his new home at the John Ball Zoo on Thursday, May 9. The exhibit has new windows to give visitors a closer experience with the bears, as well as a new space for the bears to dig and a waterfall.

Grand Rapids Community College expects to save more than $850,000 over a 15-year period by mothballing its boilers and purchasing steam from a local provider.

Most of us at one time or another have heard the tornado sirens sounding during severe weather.

Kent County and a nonprofit agency have reached a tentative deal relocating two satellite health clinics at the old Kentwood library and offering dental services to Medicaid patients.

With allegations of embezzlement from public coffers coming from his hometown last week, Kent County Commissioner Dick VanderMolen asked county officials what controls are in place to prevent similar incidents at the county.

A 2010 image of a cow on the loose after a cattle hauler overturned on U.S. 131 near Cedar Springs ALGOMA TOWNSHIP, MI -- Kent County animal control officers responded this afternoon to a home near Cedar Springs on a report of cow trying to ram a vehicle, then a house.

Youths smoke marijuana at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver, Saturday, April 20, 2013.

Thousands were without power in Northern Kent County and western Montcalm County after a line of strong storms blew through West Michigan.

Marijuana advocates march along Monroe Center in downtown Grand Rapids Thursday, Dec.