Hundreds packed the Grand Haven State Park beach this Saturday to watch colorful kites soar through the sky during the 25th annual Grand Haven Kite Festival.

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, DNR, Ottawa County Sheriff's Department Marine Patrol and Grand Haven Department of Public Safety participated in a boating safety open house Friday at Coast Guard Station Grand Haven. The first of what they hope to become an annual event included tours of the Coast Guard boats and the Coast Guard station.

The Friends of Ottawa County Parks hosted a river cruise aboard the Grand Lady on Thursday afternoon.

A Muskegon woman, Charlene Stewart, was airlifted to a Grand Rapids hospital after she rolled her car several times in an area approaching a construction zone on I-96 west of Nunica.

State wildlife biologists decided a bear who swam across Muskegon Lake to the City of Muskegon should be allowed to calm down and find his way back north on his own. The bear went into the lake near the Bear Lake Channel on the north side and came out of the water near the old oil tank farm on the south side.

The 2013 Grand Haven-area Relay for Life kicked off at 3 p.m. Friday. It continues through 3 p.m. Saturday at White Pines Middle School to benefit the American Cancer Society, and celebrate cancer survivors and remember loved ones who it took from us. Tribune photos by Ben Perfect.

Buccaneers come up short to Bulldogs on their home course