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Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) – The Grand Haven Board of Light and Power (BLP) invites all customers and community members to attend its 130th Anniversary Community Celebration on Saturday, September 12, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Lynne Sherwood Waterfront Stadium in downtown Grand Haven General Manager Rob Shelley checked into Good Morning Grand Haven: https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2288/files/2026/09/blp-rob-shelley-9-8-26.mp3 The free celebration will...

Grand Haven, Mi (WGHN) – The Grand Haven Area Community Foundation is awarding more than 687-thousand dollars in Community Impact grants to organizations across Northwest Ottawa County. The grants will support programs focused on health, education, public safety, environmental sustainability, nonprofit services and other community needs. One of the largest grants, 114-thousand-500 dollars, is going to Resilience: Advocates for Ending Violence.

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(Grand Rapids, MI) – Actor Bryan Cranston, known for his role in “Breaking Bad,” will present awards at ArtPrize 2026 and serve as a youth mentor. His agave spirits brand, Dos Hombres, will be an official sponsor of the event, featured at various locations in Grand Rapids. Cranston will also host a seminar for high school and college students on acting and storytelling.

(Ottawa)  –  Canada’s new tariffs on billions of dollars in American goods are now in effect, escalating the trade fight with the U.S.  NBC’s Alice Barr reports the tariffs range from 15 to 50 percent, covering some 27 billion dollars in U.S. imports: Barr reports U.S. consumers will feel the effects: Barr reports Canada has struck the latest blow in the escalating trade war:

(Providence, RI) – Americans have spent one-hundred-point-nine-billion-dollars more on fuel since the start of the Iran war. That’s according to Brown University’s Iran War Energy Cost tracker that has looked at fuel prices since the conflict started on February 28th. That total comes out to just over an additional 770-dollars per household. A little more than 55-billion-dollars of the total is from gasoline while just over 45-billion has been spent on diesel.

(Dearborn, MI) – The average price in Michigan for a gallon of gas is down 12-cents a gallon from last week, but it’s still over four-dollars. Triple-A Michigan says the average is now four-dollars-three-cents, 17-cents less than last month but 85-cents more than last year. A full 15-gallon tank costs 60-dollars on average in the state. Michigan’s highest price is in Ann Arbor at four-dollars-12-cents, and Grand Rapids has the lowest price at three-dollars-89-cents.

(Grand Rapids, MI) – The Michigan Secretary of State’s Office says people who received a driver’s license or state ID in the past week will soon get a replacement. Around 82-hundred licenses and identifications were sent out with a misprint, as vendor Idemia misprinted them with a stock photo and date of birth in the lower right-hand corner instead of the correct information. The SOS says the information on the ID is generic and is not anyone else’s data. The replacement cards are on their way.

Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) – As students across the tri cities head back to school following the Labor Day weekend, GHAPS is settling into the new academic year with updated staffing and food service plans.

(South Haven, MI) — The first summer for lifeguards in 25 years in South Haven has come to an end with no drowning deaths in Lake Michigan. The city added the lifeguards at the urging of parents who lost their adult children to the lake in the past five years. The revived lifeguard program includes a chief lifeguard and a seasonal crew that is trained in first aid, water rescue and surf conditions. The lifeguards will remain on South Beach in South Haven in 2027.