Sparta News

The Critter Barn in Zeeland is in its 11th year of staging a live nativity at the holidays.

Village officials plan to tell the Kent County treasurer's office that they don't want to own the abandoned Sparta Foundry.

One person died and three others received severe injuries in a two-vehicle crash after a car ran a stop sign Friday afternoon in Ottawa County.

A man is dead and three people were seriously injured in an Ottawa County wreck.

A 61-year old Sparta man made the worst, and last mistake of his life, late Friday afternoon.

A Sparta man is dead and a Conklin woman in critical condition Friday night after their vehicles collided at an intersection with a history of crashes, Ottawa County Sheriff's deputies said.

A man is dead and three people seriously injured after a crash late Friday afternoon, according to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department.

The Sparta Police Department is trying to identify families in need or children who have had a misfortune or hardship during the past year.

A Sparta woman suffered serious injuries in an accident Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of 68th Avenue and Leonard Road.

A Sparta woman was critically injured today when she pulled her vehicle into the path of a gravel-hauling semi, pinning her in the car, Ottawa County sheriff's Sgt.

The group operating Sparta Civic Center is ready to call it quits, having tried for years to generate enough money to pay the bills.

This lot in Wyoming at 3480 S. Division Ave. was the site of a gas station. Kent County is poised to add a land bank authority as another tool to combat foreclosed homes and abandoned property, under a proposal headed to the Kent County Board of Commissioners.

Major health care projects like the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital have dried up in today's economy.

A group of MSU researchers is helping fruit farmers across the state increase their crop yield and cut costs with the help of sex chemicals from female moths.

Kent county sheriff's deputies and the Sparta police ended up chasing a 13-year old girl yesterday.

SPARTA, Mich. Police in Sparta say a 13-year-old girl led them on a high speed chase over the weekend.

A 13-year-old girl took her family's van and led police on a three-mile chase Sunday, Sparta police say.

A 13-year-old girl led Sparta police on a three-mile, three-minute chase Sunday afternoon.

There is a warning out to lock your car doors after a rash of break-ins in Kent County.

Several West Michigan school administrators are closing individual campuses and in the case of Saranac, an entire district because of illnesses.