A plan to cut down thousands of trees along rural roads in Kalamazoo County has some residents organizing against it.

The order also declares June to be Gun Violence Prevention Month.

Battery Energy Storage Systems, or BESS, allow for generated energy to be used at a later date. But communities have mixed feelings about them. In Comstock, a proposal to build large-scale battery storage caused controversy.

A paper by a pair of professors at a medical school in Kalamazoo has stirred controversy on social media and drawn the attention of fact-checking website Snopes.

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The Chain Gang Cycling Group will pay tribute to the victims with a “Finish the Ride” memorial event on Tuesday, June 9.

A photo in the center's museum depicts former President Barack Obama's stop at a Kalamazoo high school graduation ceremony in 2010.

Former US Representative Joe Schwarz died on May 27, 2026 at age 88.

The United Auto Workers had warned of a strike if the company did not revise its contract offer.

A large Southwest Michigan food bank plans to use a new grant to expand their mobile food pantry services.