Muskegon News

The ROTHBURY vending area inside the main gate at the Epicenter has a prominent Muskegon presence with the Sweetwater Local Farm Market and EarthTronics having stalls right on the way to the three festival stages.

A 14-year-old wanted for home invasion, sexual assault and felony firearms violations has turned himself in to the Muskegon Police Department.

Deficit spending has reached North Muskegon Public Schools, but the school board managed to adopt a 2009-10 budget with just under $200,000 in cuts.

A last-ditch, 18-hour bargaining session between Muskegon teachers and the school board resulted in a two-year contract that gives teachers a slight raise and administrators more chances to see teachers' lessons plans.

The public is invited to an open house to welcome the new director of Muskegon County Habitat for Humanity.

Seven candidates have expressed an interest in filling a vacancy on the Muskegon school board previously held by Charles Nash.

A group of of children we're out at Muskegon Lake today enjoying their new found love for the water.

The Muskegon Board of Education has set a special meeting for Tuesday to make an appointment to a vacant board seat.

Several fire departments continue to battle a fire at a high rise apartment complex in Muskegon.

"It's pretty devastating that it caught fire like that." said Jocquez Clay who was watching from the street Tuesday afternoon.

'Twenty-four people evacuated' Responding to a fire at 1249 Peck Street in Muskegon, Red Cross Disaster Response volunteers assisted evacuees in the crisp air this early Tuesday morning.

The Women's Division Chamber of Commerce has elected new officers for the fiscal year that began June 1. New officers are Chris Nolan, president; Stacey Bierling, vice president; Mary Kendall, treasurer; Karen Mogdics, corresponding secretary; Pam Babbitt, recording secretary; and Connie Bull, ex-officio. New board members serving three years terms ...

Posted: 6-29-2009 The Muskegon Heritage Museum - THIS is Heavy Metal The Michigan Heritage Museum was first established in the mid 1980s when it received the massive Corliss Valve Steam Engine from Muskegon's Breneman Hartshorn Window Shade Company.

Elly Melby tries to climb the "Pirates Ladder" at the Muskegon Summer Celebration midway at Heritage Landing Sunday, June 28, 2009.

A 19-year-old Muskegon Community College student has pleaded guilty as charged to concealing expensive computer projectors stolen from the college.

BLUE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - All three western Michigan arts camp orchestra members whose illnesses grounded a planned European tour tested positive for swine flu.

Fire officials have determined a candle left unattended in the basement of a Muskegon Township home is what started Thursday's blaze.

The new $1.4 million, two-story 16,500-square-foot Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum on the Muskegon Channel will be dedicated in Robert Morin's name June 27.

Muskegon Police have issued a search warrant for a 14-year-old who allegedly broke into a home and sexually assaulted a woman living there.

Jim Tobleck says the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve is the best kept secret in North Muskegon.