For the first time, Grand Haven's varsity wrestling team has won a regional championship.

A West Michigan woman is doing her part to leave a visual impact for the Tri-Cities Historical Museum’s new “Birchbark and Bateaux” exhibit.

Lynn Huttinga spent the weekend at the museum’s Akeley location painting a mural for the historical Native American exhibit.

Although Mother Nature was stingy with the snow, the heat was on at the Spring Lake Rotary Club’s first-ever Snow Jam at Central Park.

About 150 people visited the heated tent throughout the day and evening to listen to live music, sip beer and chat with friends.

A woman was injured Thursday afternoon when her car slammed into the back of a truck on northbound U.S. 31.

Police said she apparently fell asleep at the wheel.

Clinging to a one-point lead with 90 seconds remaining in its showdown against rival Rockford, Grand Haven’s girls basketball team needed somebody to step up and make a play.

When he was in middle school, Iain Novoselich made the trip down from Muskegon to watch a high school basketball game at Grand Haven’s infamous Pirate’s Pit.

Nearly 50 contestants showed up Monday at Anytime Fitness in Grand Haven with hopes of becoming the biggest winners — by being the biggest losers.

In a loose spin-off of the popular reality TV series “The Biggest Loser,” organizers held casting calls Monday evening for the first-ever “Lakeshore Slimdown Challenge.”

Mr. Nibbles may have needed a bit more to nibble on at the Race of Kings hamster race Saturday afternoon — the Chinese dwarf hamster was too lightweight to move his exercise ball in the race.

The number of entries may have been down for Saturday’s Winterfest events at Mulligan’s Hollow, but the good times and even the snow were plentiful.

“Fifteen years we’ve been running this and it’s been a blast every year — and that’s why we keep coming back,” said Duane Schroeder of Grand Haven, who was part of a group dressed as “ice cream men” in a cardboard ice cream truck.