As the calendar flips to a new year, millions of Americans pledge to improve their financial lives. But without a concrete plan, those well-intentioned resolutions often fade quickly. Financial goals ...

This movie artifact from “The Addams Family” (1991) is a part of the Just Off Broadway collection. It was wrapped around Grand Rapids native actress Elizabeth Wilson when she was looking through the ...

Two local parents are kicking off the new year with a new bundle of joy. Erin and Garrett Holmes, of Hastings, welcomed their new daughter, Clara Elizabeth, at 12:55 p.m. last week on New Year’s Day, ...

I get amazing questions from curious kids all over the world. So many of you want to know whether chickens or eggs came first. It turns out, that’s one of the first questions I ever received—way back ...

In the early decades of the 20th century, the steady arrival of automobiles in Hastings signaled more than a technological shift—it marked a turning point in the town’s commercial identity and daily ...

Places Events Search for Near Search Search {"hide_search_input":false,"hide_near_input":false,"show":"","filters_pos":"","input_size":"","bar_flex_wrap":"","bar_flex ...

Barry County voters rejected a regional enhancement millage proposal Tuesday that would have generated an estimated $1.49 million annually for the Barry Intermediate School District over the next ...

On very clear days, I can see five volcanoes from my campus. They’re Rainier, Hood, Adams, St. Helens and Baker. That’s…a lot. I asked my friend Katie Cooper about it. She’s a geophysicist at ...

The scores are creeping up for the Greater Lansing Activities Conference champions. The Lakewood varsity competitive cheer team finished off an undefeated GLAC season by winning the conference ...

The Hastings varsity girls’ wrestling team finished off a weekend sweep by the high school wrestling program winning the Gull Lake Girls Blue Devil Classic Sunday. Hastings had four flight champions ...