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Nearly one million Trek bikes are being recalled in the United States and Canada after an injury that left one rider paralyzed. Included in the recall are 900,000 bikes in the U.S., and 98,000 sold in Canada, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. A quick-release lever on the bike's front-wheel hub can come into contact with the front disc brake assembly, resulting in either complete

Got a gopher problem? The folks in Winnipeg might have the solution for you!

Many old-school groups seem to be releasing music this spring, either digitally re-mastered classics or brand spanking new music. Styx is heading out on tour to support its eight-album vinyl box set collection, which is slated for release May 12. No tour dates have been released yet, although tickets are to be available through Ticketmaster.

A pub owner in Ireland says a Grand Rapids beer is a top seller in his pub on St. Patrick's Day! Gareth Cummings, who runs Thomas House in Dublin, gave props to Founders All Day IPA in a Reddit AMA session.

As the all-new design of the 2015 Ford Mustang rolls off the lots of Ford dealers locally, it is also becoming an international must-have.

NASA is reporting that a coronal mass ejection -- it sounds messy, but it's not -- will give Michigan residents a pretty good shot at seeing the Aurora Borealis light up the northern skies tonight, capping St. Patrick's Day with a green light show this evening. The further north you go, the better your chance of seeing it, but greater Grand Rapids and West Michigan residents may get a view if the

Severe bad weather caused The Eagles to briefly delay a concert in Australia on Saturday night. A thunderstorm with 86-mile-per-hour winds hit near Australia’s outdoor Hanging Rock venue in Victoria where the band was playing. The Eagles were in the middle of their third song when the stage began to shake, and a screen came loose and swung over the crowd.

When you have lived in as many other places as I have you come to appreciate the people of the North and how they handle snow. They treat it as a fact of life. Case in point: This Canadian train rolling through New Brunswick.

Grand Rapids native and boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr.(who just last year posted his ex's sonograms and accused her of "killing babies") has been denied entry into Australia due to all of his domestic violence and assault convictions. Good. Mayweather was hoping to travel to Australia to do some promotional events in Sydney and Melbourne. Unfortunately for him, Australia was much more conce

You can now buy the Big Mac's secret sauce from McDonald's without buying a Big Mac! There's a catch, thousand island dressing-loving secret sauce aficionado. It's gonna cost you.

The boxing world has been buzzing about talks to put Grand Rapids native WBC welterweight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr., in the ring with WBA champ Manny Pacquiao. On Tuesday night, it appears to have gotten a step closer to happening.

Today (Jan. 28) marks the 29th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger breaking apart almost immediately after it launched. To say that I remember that day - where I was, and what I was doing when I heard the news - would be a lie. I was three years old (almost four). I probably barely had any idea what was happening. But, I DO very vividly remember that it happened, and that's all thanks to a