Howard City News

Heat Transfer International secures agreement with Morbark Inc. as manufacturing partner for production of systems that convert biomass to energy.

West Michigan's first commercial bio-mass system gets going Friday. The facility in Howard City will turn tons of turkey litter into electricity and steam.

Sietsema Farms Inc. will stop sending more than $500,000 a year out of state to burn fossil fuels.

Alternative Energy comes from Turkey droppings in Newaygo county, as a company called Heat Transfer International will use 70,000 pounds of turkey droppings in our state's first commercial biomass generator.

Police identified Derrick Mitchell Holstege, 19, of Wyoming, as the victim of a fatal crash Saturday night .

State police say an alert tipster Sunday helped identify a suspect in three holdups.

A former Cedar Springs couple already in prison for a rash of West Michigan home invasions has been arraigned for a March break-in at a Muskegon County home - committed while they were out on bond and cooperating with authorities in still earlier home invasions.

Police officers in Montcalm County are taking advantage of new technology to help fight crime.

In court, sometimes it's your word against theirs. But police officers in Montcalm county say they're about to make their cases a lot stronger thanks to some new technology.

While many elections have important issues and races at stake, there are some that may feel unnecessary, and not worth the money.

On Friday night, September 11th, 2009 Troopers from the Lakeview Post assisted the Michigan Department of Corrections , Probation / Parole, Stanton Office, with random checks of parolees and probationers during Operation Nighthawk.A Operation Nighthawk is a cooperative effort between MDOC and law enforcement.A Parole Agents and Troopers teamed up ...

Hide Video Michigan State Police say a man convicted of distributing child porn in Mecosta County violated his parole by having more child porn.

State troopers have arrested a registered sex offender in Montcalm County for child pornography.

Witnesses in Howard City say a woman left her two small children alone in a running vehicle to go shopping.

A Coral mother could face charges after one of her two children, left unattended in a running minivan, put the vehicle into reverse, causing it to roll into the middle of M-82. According to the Howard City Police Department, the 22-year-old woman left her children, ages 5 and 1, in the running Dodge Caravan on Thursday while she shopped at the ...

When a Grand Rapids woman forwarded a sexually explicit image to everyone in her cell phone directory, a 13-year-old Howard City girl ended up receiving it.

The search is on for the thieves who stole a truckload of footwear! They actually took the entire trailer.

Authorities are investigating the theft of hundreds of shoes and boots from a Montcalm County warehouse.

The Montcalm County Sheriff's Office and the Howard City Police Department are investigating the suspicious death of a 56-year-old man Friday evening.

Hide Video Police say two men got caught trying to steal car parts, then attacked their victims while trying to escape.