For nearly ten years, ‘home’ to Dr. Andre Perry was in New Orleans. During that time he met his beautiful wife, started a family, became a ‘Community Coffee’ celebrity (as he likes to call it) and ...

East Kentwood students honor their families’ refugee journeys through oral histories about the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

I first became interested in cooking with locally sourced ingredients about 15 years ago — at least as far as a restaurant setting was concerned. Admittedly, many restaurants around the country were ...

Part of my investigations of West Michigan by air, the scale of a huge tractor compared to the size of the field makes helps describe the farming roots to our region. Part of my investigations of West ...

Motorists who drive down Grand Rapids’ oldest streets may not realize they are textured with more than asphalt or brick. They are also layered with a history that intertwines the area’s Native ...

Writer Ryan McCarthy explores The Grand Rapids Bicycle Company and the Trailhead Cafe, the newest ventures of serial and family entrepreneur Tom Smith.

All 56 of the state's ISDs now have access to a software product for managing behavioral health referrals, screenings, treatment plans, and more. The software electronically manages and merges ...

Watching boaters from the air is about as much fun as being on the boat itself. Watersports on Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids, photograph by Adam Bird, helicopter by Easy Rotor.

Housing Next has evolved, growing from an Ottawa County-based organization to one that includes Grand Rapids and the rest of Kent County. The board that represents the multicounty regional ...

David Morgan of Resonate Global Mission points out the vistas available from one of the condo’s front stoop. (Photo by Tommy Allen) What began as a friendship between two dads has grown into a ...

We have all seen the images: the seemingly endless lines of people fleeing Syrian towns and cities — ancient places framed by snow-topped mountains and breathtakingly vast desert in which they grew up ...

It’s hard enough to be a relatively healthy homeless person struggling to survive, but imagine what it’s like to be homeless and mentally ill. As you stroll down to Heartside for lunch at God’s ...