Ottawa County News

According to Ottawa County Central Dispatch, the driver of the car pulled in front of the ambulance.

Ottawa County's Technical Rescue Team responded to a Grand Haven Township tree nursery, where a worker got his foot stuck in a tree baler.

A Muskegon woman suffered serious injuries in a single-vehicle crash that closed I-96 west of Nunica for a short time late yesterday morning.

A man is accused of falsely reporting an Ottawa County sheriff's deputy's drug involvement in effort to "discredit" deputy, FBI says.

People wait to vote at Community Revival Center, 1005 Evergreen SE Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

About 13,000 students from Ottawa and Allegan counties are about to find out what area companies do and the skills needed to work there.

When construction gets underway on a 4,400-foot-long bridge that will carry traffic on the new M-231 expressway over the Grand River in 2015, Ottawa County officials hope that project will also include construction of a separate multi-use lane which pedestrians and bicyclists can use to cross the river.

County Administrator Al Vanderberg, who said it was "time for a change," said he has appointed fiscal services accountant Dave Carpenter to be the interim fiscal services director until a new director is hired.

Tim Engel of Tri-City Towing of Grand Haven works at the scene of where Charlene Ann Stewart, 39, of Muskegon was alone and driving this 4-door Chevrolet Vibe on eastbound I-96 at the 7-mile marker when a witness reported that her car suddenly swerved off the road where it rolled and landed near some trees at 11:00 a.m. on May 14, 2013 in Ottawa ... (more)

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

An 18-year-old Holland area woman was jailed overnight, awaiting arraignment on driving without a license charge, after she apparently caused an accident that hospitalized a 57-year-old Zeeland Township motorcyclist.

Fruitport Township police attempted to make a traffic stop of the woman's 1999 Audi A6 in the Village of Fruitport, but the car fled, said Sgt.

An 82-year-old Muskegon man was hospitalized after being injured in a crash on Lake Michigan Drive Monday afternoon.

Ottawa County has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be used for assessment, cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties around the county.

If Michigan lawmakers are successful in passing measures to collect sales tax from online purchases, it could be the beginning of some major relief for small businesses around Superiorland - and for the cash-strapped state government.

A freeze warning is in effect from 10 p.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. Monday for much of west and central Michigan, including Ottawa County.

A vehicle pursuit out of Fruitport around the midnight hour ended with a crash and an arrest.

Sentencing is set on June 17th for Israel Pacheco-Gutierrez after an Ottawa County Circuit Court jury yesterday found him guilty of first-degree home invasion and unlawful imprisonment counts.

Two Grand Haven-area men were arrested Thursday evening in connection to a string of thefts from vehicles parked outside homes in the Forest Park subdivision of Grand Haven Township.

Allegan County Commissioners are hoping that they aren't closing the proverbial barn door after the horses have already escaped.