Melissa Frick

On Thursday, Wyoming leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of a new battery components plant, a project that will transform a vacant property and create nearly 150 jobs.

| WYOMING, MI – The developers of several high-end townhome developments in West Michigan are planning a new housing project in a Grand Rapids suburb.

The highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been detected at a West Michigan poultry farm.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids leaders are exploring the possibility of a pilot deer hunt on city property in an effort to help control the growing local deer population.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids is holding off on a pilot deer hunt that was proposed to happen next month, after residents in the area expressed opposition to the idea.

Over 80% of the staff in the comptroller's department are being reassigned to a new department, a move the comptroller said he knew about just four days before it went for a vote.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids City Manager Mark Washington has decided he is here to stay.

WYOMING, MI – Heads up, bargain lovers: B2 Outlets is making a comeback in the Grand Rapids area.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Helen DeVos Children's Hospital has gifted us all an early Christmas gift: Adorable photos of tiny babies in hilarious holiday sweaters.

Three University of Michigan students are getting national recognition for an app they developed that's sweeping across over 1,000 college campuses.