Barry County News

Veteran oil man Sid Jansma Jr. says he's not being nostalgic by going back to his oil drilling roots in West Michigan.

Two boats allegedly struck one another at about 5:30 p.m. on Guernsey Lake in Barry County, according to police reports.

A Sophomore from Thornapple Kellogg High is recovering from burns she suffered when an SUV she was riding in was struck and caught fire.

Authorities in Barry County are shutting down M-37 south of Middleville after a fiery crash has critically injured at least one person.

They were out diving from a boat into Gun Lake in Barry County when 17-year-old Jhalak Bhattarad went under and didn't come back up.

Fracking, the practice of pumping chemical-laced water underground to fracture the rock, has been practiced in Michigan for decades.

Ex-major league outfielder Chad Curtis has been charged with criminal sexual conduct on accusations he inappropriately touched two students at a Michigan high school.

A 17-year-old high school senior from southwestern Michigan died in a motorcycle crash, two days before his school's graduation ceremony.

There is another teen tragedy in the news, and there is another West Michigan family planning a funeral instead of a graduation party.

Plainwell High School seniors were lining up for their pre-graduation awards ceremony Tuesday night when word came that one of their classmates, Patrick McCormick, 17, had been killed in a motorcycle crash earlier in the evening.

A 17-year-old boy identified on Facebook pages and at a school gathering Tuesday night as a student at Plainwell High School was killed Tuesday when the 2008 Kawasaki Vulcan motorcycle he was riding northbound on Norris Road left the roadway.

Authorities confirmed Tuesday afternoon that at least one person has died after a Barry County motorcycle crash.

A 25-year-old Battle Creek man was airlifted to to the hospital yesterday after his southbound car apparently crossed the center line of M-66 near Day Road and struck a car driven by an 83-year-old northbound Bellevue woman.

At 12:51 a.m. Sunday, the Michigan State Police responded to a report of a crash involving a Barry County Sheriff's Department patrol vehicle on South M-37 near Culver Road in Barry County.

7 primary is three months away, but it promises to have some interesting races on both county and township levels.

Kristy M. Paolillo, 33, of Springfield, was pulled over near West State Street and Church Street on May 9 after police observed her driving a black Honda, according to Hastings Police Chief Jerry Sarver.

The case against Courtney Marie Morris , a fired Muskegon County clerk's employee charged with tampering with court computer records, has been transferred to Barry County for trial.

In this May 19, 2011, photo, crews prepare to pump water and chemicals into a natural gas well in Charlton Township to release additional gas from shale formations 1,200 feet beneath the earth's surface.

It took "about 30 seconds" for 18-year-old Meagan Bila to get the hang of the excavator she'd... LANSING - An auction of state-owned oil-and-gas leases attracted a throng of protesters and bidders Tuesday, the latter shelling out more than $3.6 million for the drilling rights to more than 90,000 acres across Lower Michigan.

Gull Lake Community School officials say students will be using more advanced technology in the classroom as soon as fall after school district voters Tuesday approved a $7.29 million bond proposal.