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On Friday, Sept. 20, amidst the bustling atmosphere of ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids, the area surrounding Van Andel Arena buzzed with energy.

Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital has delivered 7,370 babies so far in 2022. Here are the top names for girls and for boys:

With the beautiful summer evenings making it easy to stay up well past bedtime, options abound for where to spend those “extra” hours.

Grand Rapids drummer Scott Hickok had a dream come true Saturday night when he was called up from the floor of Little Caesars Arena in Detroit to play a song with The Killers.

The BISSELL Pet Foundation’s “Empty the Shelters” event aims to find adoptive homes for shelter pets each fall before the cold winter months set in.

About 175 years ago, 457 people from the Netherlands who were seeking religious freedom arrived in West Michigan and eventually settled in what is now known as Zeeland.

I lived around the corner from Olive’s, 2162 Wealthy Street in East Grand Rapids, for years. I love cooking and entertaining in my home, so I didn’t eat there every week, but often enough to know the menu, what I liked and what didn’t suit my taste.

In celebration of The Jim Henson Exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, there will be a screening of The Dark Crystal at Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy St SE, on Tuesday, Nov. 1.  

A volleyball club that was started in Grand Rapids has been sold to the nation’s largest youth sports club and event operator, 3STEP Sports.

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is looking for local artists to feature in its $110 million Concourse A expansion. 

HopCat, located at 25 Ionia Ave. SW in downtown Grand Rapids, has been nominated for USA Today’s “10Best Beer Bars in America.” This is...

Alto bar, which boasts 650 different bourbons and whiskeys, has reopened.

The Kent County Road Commission color tour guides travelers along picturesque routes throughout Kent County.

West Michigan’s own Moxie Strings will perform in the barn at Meijer Gardens on Tuesday, Oct. 4, the final act in the “Tuesdays at the Farm” local musician series. 

You’ve heard recreational cannabis is legal in Michigan, but maybe it’s been a while since you experimented with the jazz cabbage? Your college days are behind you. Kids, professional life, and adulting have meant time off from the alligator cigarettes.

A Grand Rapids-based moonshine brand soon will occupy the Harmony Hall building following last week’s news of the beer castle’s upcoming closure.

It’s big, it’s old and it’s back in business starting today. The B.O.B., which closed its doors suddenly last December, will officially reopen them...

Like spotting the first set of lights at Christmas time, the ghoulish billboards that advertise The Haunt are like emblems that herald the countdown to Halloween in West Michigan.

There’s a sport taking the United States by storm: pickleball.

Tickets for all Grand Rapids Symphony concerts – including special events – are now available online for the 2022-23 season.