Sparta News

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.

Police now say Timothy Dawson is a suspect in his wife Julia's murder. He is the only suspect to be named since her body was found along U.S. 131 in Montcalm County in January.

The Kent County Sheriff's Department is looking into several complaints of car break-ins. They happened in Algoma, Sparta, and Tyrone Townships in the northwest section of the county.

ArtPrize's top 10 felt the glory Thursday evening. But ArtPrize still has another list that didn't see a celebration: its 25 most controversial.

Michigan State police are investigating an accident that split a car in two, knocked a semi on its side and left two people hospitalized early this morning.

Violinist Ritsu Katsumata knows some people are "just being polite" when they talk to her and her photographer husband Stafford Smith about "Fearscape," their cutting-edge ArtPrize exhibit at the Old Federal Building.