U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Crews began dredging operations Friday on Grand Haven’s outer harbor, but the project will not address the inner harbor, at least not yet

Kent county Veterans Services is offering free gun locks to vets and their families, Union leaders say GRPS teachers are quitting due to uncompetitive pay and understaffing, researchers found a new home for an eaglet displaced by last week's storms, and more.

Harbors along the West Michigan lakeshore are getting millions of federal dollars to fund much needed projects

As one lakeshore harbor is scheduled to undergo dredging this week, another is having its dredging project rescheduled until next year

The decision is stoking environmentalists’ fears that the project will escape scrutiny.

U.S. Representative Bill Huizenga says one such project would decrease the need for dredging one of Michigan’s busiest ports

Halting Asian carp migration into the Great Lakes has reached a critical juncture. The National Wildlife Federation is urging the governor of Illinois to sign off on a project that will prevent Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

The channel entrance will be dredged 16 feet below the base elevation and the sand will be placed along the shore for about a mile from the Saugatuck South Pier to Oval Beach

The Detroit District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun dredging Holland’s outer harbor

Patrick Center shares this week’s edition of Crain’s Grand Rapids Business Brief, Consumers Energy is burying electric lines in West Michigan, the CDC has new COVID guidelines, and more state and West Michigan news.