Kalamazoo MI

That’s the one word Plainwell High School band director David Hepinstall used to describe the PHS marching band’s performance at the Michigan Competing Band Association Flight IV State Championship on Saturday, Nov. 1. The judges on hand at Ford Field in Detroit agreed, as the PHS band received...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- The idea of building a data center in Pavilion Township has been put on hold for now. Real estate development firm Franklin Partners approached the township in August to ask a township ordinance be amended to allow “data warehousing facilities” to be constructed. The...

KALAMAZOO, MI — The city of Kalamazoo reelected David Anderson to serve a fourth term as mayor on Tuesday, Nov. 4. According to unofficial totals with all 19 precincts reporting, Anderson won with 6,467 votes, followed by Chris Glasser with 2,706 and Robert Gray with 829. Anderson has served...

LAWTON – A Lawton woman, a former employee of Lawton Community School, was arraigned Oct. 24, in 7th District Court, Paw Paw, on a charge of embezzlement over $50,000, but less than $100,000, according to a press release from the Lawton Police Department. Lawton Police Chief Greg Cordes said...

Two people were injured in single-vehicle crash after their car hit a deer and rolled over Tuesday evening, according to the Branch County Sheriff's Office.

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that only five people were injured despite six being taken to the hospital. A woman is charged with operating while intoxicated causing serious injury after an August crash involving an Amish buggy that injured five people.

On November 2, 2025, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (KDPS) officers responded to a domestic assault involving a firearm in the 2200 block of Flower Street. A 51-year-old woman was found injured after being struck with a firearm by her partner. She was treated at a local hospital.

A motorcyclist died after a crash that set the motorcycle on fire in Kalamazoo early Wednesday morning. Now we've learned he was a firefighter in Oshtemo Township.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- A temporary job turned into a full-time career for Damon Travis, an itinerant teacher in Kalamazoo’s pre-kindergarten early-education program (PEEP) and Early Childhood Special Education program (ECSE). He’s one of few male teachers in early-education. Only 3% of teachers in early-education are men,...

"She was my baby girl,” Alayiah Lazzara's grieving mom said