Grand Rapids Michigan News

Grand Rapids is giving away free pool passes for kids this summer — here’s how to get yours. City youth 17 and under can score free season passes to three outdoor pools, but parents need to register before the May 25 deadline. https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2026/04/grand-rapids-is-giving-away-free-pool-passes-for-kids-this-summer-heres-how-to-get-yours.html

Indigenous march in Grand Rapids spotlights human rights crisis. Activists gathered Tuesday to shine a light on the crisis of murdered and missing indigenous people. https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/indigenous-march-in-grand-rapids-spotlights-human-rights-crisis/69-6bab94be-a0f9-433e-af43-e1833e5d03ab

3 confirmed tornadoes touched down in West Michigan Tuesday. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It has been a very stormy week with severe weather raging across this Central Plains and Midwest. Over a thousand reports of severe have occurred since this previous Monday. West Michigan was not unscathed with a powerful line of thunderstorms plowing through overnight Tuesday. In its wake there wer... https://www.woodtv.com/weather/weather-news/3-confirmed-tornadoes-touched-down-in-west-michigan-tuesday/

Judge orders man to trial over 'heinous' racial slurs, lynching threat. A man accused of unleashing a barrage of racial slurs against a woman in a grocery store parking lot near Grand Rapids has been ordered to stand trial on a hate crime charge. https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/man-ordered-to-stand-trial-over-slurs-lynching-reference-in-grocery-store-parking-lot/