Speakers at the 2026 Absolutely Accessible West Michigan conference include real estate broker Sarah Takens; urban planning leader Suzanne Schulz; Valerie Fletcher, executive director of the Institute ...

Curtis Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” is this year’s Great Michigan Read from the Michigan Humanities. In a country increasingly sorted by politics, class, ...

Dan VanderMeer and Asher Kuhn have turned tech-flipping into a business. You’ve probably tried to dispose of some old technology before. Maybe it was that phone that stopped working, or perhaps an old ...

As artificial intelligence evolves faster than most people can keep up, Tim Haines is trying to help others keep pace. “I just believe very strongly that the change that’s occurring is being driven at ...

The 2025 C.R. Evenson Foundation Fellows are Sergio Cira-Reyes, David Fraker, and Anna Crooks. At Earthly Refillery, clear canisters of dry goods line the walls. There’s an assortment of nuts with ...

Stress balls come with personal messages like this one from Odyssey of the Mind students. A group of students in West Michigan is trying to make a big difference with something simple that not a lot ...

Some of the members of the Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus, celebrating its 30th anniversary. As the Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus started planning its 30th-anniversary season, Artistic Director Lori ...

The four-month program combines classroom instruction and hands-on clinical training. This story is part of a series on the challenges and solutions related to oral health in Michigan, Indiana, and ...

Drug and alcohol addiction can disrupt every aspect of a woman’s life, affecting health, family stability, and economic security. Since 1972, Our Hope Association, a Grand Rapids-based nonprofit women ...

This article is part of State of Health, a series about how Michigan communities are rising to address health challenges. It is made possible with funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.

What’s happening: The New Community Transformation Fund (NCTF), a statewide venture capital fund based in Grand Rapids, has announced the first close of its new $20 million Fund II. The public-private ...

In September 2018, Rapid Growth Media published the story, Neighborhoods of GR: Making Monroe North a riverside destination, in our ‘Neighborhoods of Grand Rapids’ Series. This week, we want to look ...