Oceana County News

Grand Valley State University's alternative energy center will circle back to some 75 low-income residents in Muskegon and Oceana counties to see how solar energy has worked for them.

Authorities have determined blood found outside the Exxon gas station in Norton Shores where Jessica Heeringa was allegedly abducted is that of the missing woman.

Dilts worked for a subcontractor, Shoreline Metal Fabricators Inc. of Muskegon, which had workers on the roof of the foundry at 2625 W. Winston Road in Rothbury, Oceana County Sheriff's Lt.

A man died after falling 30 feet through a sky-light while working on a roof at Rothbury Steel in Oceana County.

Former Hart City Council member Timothy Nathaniel Shannon is pictured in Oceana County's 78th District Court in Hart before Judge H. Kevin Drake prior to the start of his preliminary exam on January 22, 2013.

The sixth West Michigan Memorial Tractor Ride will take place Sunday, May 19. The annual ride started in 2008 in memory of friends and loved ones affected with cancer from area antique tractor clubs.

The Wildcats took over The Loading Dock and had "a starry night in Paris" themed dance on the first summer-like Saturday night of the year.

North Central Co-op started offering this scholarship program in 2001 to award deserving high school seniors who have been involved in at least five years of 4-H and/or two years of FFA and have parents that are current stockholders, patrons, or employees of the cooperative.

A 32-year-old Montague-area man has been charged with two felony assault charges for reportedly stabbing another man with gardening shears on Sunday.

After a chilly and somewhat even snowy April, we have suddenly found ourselves thrown right into early summer warmth in parts of Northern Michigan.

A Montague man who allegedly stabbed and seriously wounded another man and then assaulted his own son later tried to disarm a sheriff's deputy at a local hospital, police say.

Tornadoes, wind and heavy rain top the list of Michigan weather events on this day in history .

There were an estimated 11 fewer local residents working in March than were working a year earlier and an estimated 541 fewer residents who were jobless.

Roger James Boucher, 40, of Twin Lake, one year Oceana County Jail for controlled substance possession non-narcotic, $198 fees/costs, sentence to served at court's discretion.

Dr. William Anderson, who leads a Cultural Economic Development Plan committee for Mason County, is thinking the list will be long.