Holland Hospital Earns National Honor
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - Holland Hospital has landed on the “America’s 100 Best Hospitals” list by Healthgrades. The online consumer service evaluated nearly 45 hundred facilities on objective measures of...
View ArticleFather of Hope College Student Still Missing
VAN BUREN, MO (WHTC) - There’s been no trace of the father of a Hope College student a week after his disappearance. Bloodhounds and helicopters failed to find any sign of Fred Byrne in a national...
View ArticleGentex Announces Quarterly Dividend
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC) - Gentex’ stockholders are getting an extra penny per share in its quarterly dividend. The Zeeland-based specialty parts maker approved the eight percent increase in its return to 14...
View ArticleHolland City Council Takes on Issues Tonight
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - During tonight’s scheduled Holland City Council meeting, the leaders are expected to take some parking changes to 8th and 34th streets off of the table; get the formal presentation...
View Article"Environmental Concern" Affecting Operations at Mead Johnson's Zeeland Plant
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC) - Officials of Mead Johnson disclosed yesterday that its baby formula plant in Zeeland has been partially shut down due to “an environmental finding of concern in an isolated area”...
View ArticleAnti-Merger Group Gets Petitions to SBC on Saugatuck-Douglas Vote
OKEMOS, MI (WHTC) - Despite wintery weather conditions, officials of Citizens for Independent and Cooperative Communities were able to deliver petitions with 342 signatures to the State Boundary...
View ArticleAllegan Fugitive May Offer Plea in Colorado Today
CAÑON CITY, CO (WHTC) - One of two Allegan men who fled a corrections program in Baldwin last September and took their girlfriends on an interstate flight from justice goes before a Colorado judge...
View ArticleHolland Teen Found After Running Off Following Tiff with Father
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - The search didn’t take long for a 13-year-old Holland boy who stormed out of his East 16th Street home on foot between 9 and 10 this morning after an argument with his father and...
View ArticleParking Tops Uneventful Holland City Council Meeting
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - It was a relatively routine Holland City Council meeting last night, as members are awaiting a proposed fiscal 2014 budget from City Manager Ryan Cotton that should be before them...
View ArticleLakeshore School Chiefs Not Near Tops in Statewide Pay Scale
MIDLAND, MI (WHTC) - Public school superintendents in Ottawa and Allegan counties are, for the most part, not among the leaders on the statewide pay scale, in numbers culled from public documents last...
View ArticleHuizenga Not Surprised by "President's MO" in Sequester Debate
MANISTEE, MI (WHTC) - The White House is continuing its media offensive on the Sequester, as President Obama conducted separate interviews with local television stations in eight markets across the...
View ArticleDredging Hearing Today Before Allegan Co. Commissioners
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC) - One of the biggest concerns for a Lakeshore community is the subject of a special Allegan County Board hearing this morning. Dean Kapenga, who represents Saugatuck-Douglas on the...
View ArticleCasco Twp. Man Arrested After Texting Error
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WHTC) - A 24-year-old Casco Township man is in the Van Buren County Jail on 100 thousand dollars bond after allegedly sending an explicit text message to the wrong person in an attempt...
View ArticlePalisades Plant Begins Restarting Process
COVERT, MI (WHTC) - The control room operators at the Palisades Nuclear Plant have begun to slowly bring the reactor back into service after plugging a leak in a cooling water heat exchanger that took...
View ArticleMinor Train Derailment in Holland
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - A minor train derailment near Kollen Park kept Holland Public Safety officials busy last night. Snow and ice are believed to have caused the last two cars of a slow-moving train to...
View ArticleAnother Attack by Old Man Winter Along Lakeshore
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - After a day’s respite, the Lakeshore is back under a Winter Weather Advisory, this time through 1 PM. Forecasters say that this new storm coming from the southwest should bring...
View ArticleLocal Tourism Leader Expresses Optimism Despite Rising Gas Prices
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - With gas prices already hovering around the four-dollar mark, there are fears that Michigan tourism will take a big hit, as people would be less likely to travel. However, Holland...
View ArticleGas Prices Edge Upward Along Lakeshore
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - Gas prices ticked slightly upward in a seven-day span along the Lakeshore, as this morning’s survey of Holland area stations had an average per-gallon cost of $3.87, three pennies...
View ArticleJury Acquits Grand Haven Man of Alleged Racial Slur
GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC) - An Ottawa County Circuit Court Jury on Friday returned a non-guilty verdict on a 56-year-old Grand Haven man accused of ethnic intimidation for writing a racial slur on a wall...
View ArticleSearch Continues for Holland Woman Missing Since Valentine's Day
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - Holland Public Safety on Saturday continued to ask for the public’s help in locating Emelene VanDyke. The 36-year-old Holland woman hasn’t been seen since 6 PM on Valentine’s Day,...
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