Early learning center reflects children’s home languages, cultural practices, and supports first-generation families.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Among the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is one few people know about: an increase in the number and severity of domestic violence cases. According to a September 2022 article on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is part of Rapid Growth's Voices of Youth series, which features content created by Kent County youth in partnership with Rapid Growth staff mentors, as well as feature stories by adult ...