Holland News

Police are looking for an armed robber who held up the Cash Advance store at 520 Butternut Avenue on Friday evening.

A state auditor general's report shows the Michigan Department of Transportation incorrectly distributed gas tax funds to 35 county road commissions in the past two budget years.

Bill Adams, manager of CRWRC Disaster Response Services, cell 616-560-2782 Beth DeGraff, media contact for CRWRC, cell 616-648-7821 or 1-800-55-CRWRC CRWRC Helps Flooded Homeowners in Holland, Michigan July 1, 2009­? Local Disaster Response volunteers with the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee are helping Holland, Michigan, residents ...

After police stopped Kevin Lee Babcock's heavily-damaged car on U.S. 31 this weekend, he told a deputy he had been "drinking a lot, maybe as high as 20 drinks," according to a police officer's court testimony Monday.

Up and down the manicured Carrington Place condominium complex, trash littered front and rear lawns Monday, the result of 24 of 26 units suffering substantial flood damage .

The city of Holland's transportation director says how soon the washed-out portion of 24th Street is repaired will be decided next week.

Two Holland men were struck by a car while bicycling on U.S. 31 in Holland Township on Saturday morning, leaving one in critical condition and the other in serious condition.

A washed-out portion of 24th Street near a Holland public school will not reopen before late August, according to an engineer drafting proposals for restoring the area.

A 22-year-old Holland area man who was driving with marijuana in his system when he caused a fatal crash was sentenced to six months in jail Friday.

The driver of an off-road vehicle was hospitalized and her passenger was injured Thursday evening after she lost control and struck a tree.

The City of Holland remains bogged down with debris and washed out roads from all the rain it recently saw.

In Ottawa County, a number of streets remain closed because they are either under water or washed out.

Ottawa County health officials today issued a no-swimming advisory for Tunnel Park, the first Lake Michigan beach this year affected by unhealthy water.

A concert by the Evergreen Chorale, traveling all the way from Holland, Mich., will be presented Friday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the First Reformed Church in Oak Harbor, 250 SW Third Ave.

US Representative Pete Hoekstra is on the lakeshore this afternoon to survey the damage after historic flooding this weekend in Holland.

Volunteers from the Grand Rapids area are pitching in to clean up water damage to some Holland Museum artifacts.

Reporting of Storm and Flood Damage in the City of Holland - The City of Holland is assessing the Private Damage to Homes and Businesses.

The Ottawa County Health Department says the amount of bacteria at three area beaches exceed the state's Water Quality Standards for total body contact for the time being.

The assessment phase of the damage from last Friday's storms is in full swing in Ottawa and Allegan Counties.

Severe thunderstorms swept across southern Michigan over the weekend, spawning three tornadoes, dumping as much as eight inches of rain in places and knocking out power to 130,000 homes and businesses, authorities said Sunday.