Big Rapids News

Chad Billins and Cory Kane each had a goal and an assist as No. 6 Ferris State beat No.

A Jamaican fugitive who has been implicated in a 'major crime' in Chicago, and who is believed to have been on the run for 20 years, was arrested on Wednesday during a traffic stop, a report in The Grand Rapids News describes.

Grand Rapids has multiple music venues that stick to one genre. There are blues bars, dueling piano joints and country music venues, but one venue refuses to be labeled.

A state police trooper stopped a vehicle around 4 p.m. in Big Rapids because the driver wasn't using a seat belt.

1899 . The coldest temperatures ever officially recorded in Grand Rapids came during the cold wave of Feb.

Dave Clark is a respected journalist who is currently the editor in chief of the Pioneer in Big Rapids and is the former editor of the Daily Telegram in Adrian.

A Just a quick notegot back from Florida at 12:15 AM early Tues. AM.A Most unusual to fly from Orlando to Michigan in January and have it be clear all the way home.A Quite an interesting night here in W. Michigan.A At midnight it was 15 and calm in Big Rapids and 47 with a wind gusting to over 30 mph at Muskegon!A A The wind, sky cover and snow ... (more)

For the second year in a row , the Walker-based retailer is providing 18 semi-tractors, worth $200,000, to organizations in four states to fight hunger.

Brian McKinstry of Big Rapids fishes at the Kettunen Center Saturday during the annual Family Fun Day.

The winners of the Michigan Patch Dog Show Contest embrace both the sun and the snow.

A Guatemalan girl picks through trash. Guatemala is one of the most malnourished countries in the world.

Michigan native Linda Stephen is the featured artist at Artworks during the Big Rapids and Ferris State Universitys 5th annual Festival of the Arts January 25 to February 29.

The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University is getting a new, expanded home at the Michigan school.

Catherine Salome has participated in the Wish-A-Mile Bicycle Tour for the past seven years, pedaling hundreds of miles across the state to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan.