Kalamazoo MI

"June's issue is very artful — All the stories have some art aspect to it. Not by design, just happenstance," says Encore Magazine editor Marie Lee, who joins Cara Lieurance to preview the stories set to be published next week. The cover story centers on the Prairie Ronde Artist...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- EB Precopio loves food. She also loves Kalamazoo. She’s bringing those two passions together in a venture she started last year -- Feed Me, Kzoo, a three-hour culinary walking tour of downtown Kalamazoo. The plan for this year is to offer a tour every month through...

Finding a restaurant where both parents and kids can be happy feels like searching for a unicorn. The Backyard of Kalamazoo in Kalamazoo proves that unicorns exist, and they come with playgrounds and good food. Family dining shouldn’t be this hard. We’ve put people on the moon, invented smartphones,...

Meet Jasmine, a gentle three-year-old pup from the SPCA of Southwest Michigan, ready to bring joy and playfulness to a loving home.

KALAMAZOO, MI — A Battle Creek woman who drove a vehicle while intoxicated and crashed into another vehicle, killing two siblings in their 80s, is headed to prison. Rachael Lee Story, 31, pleaded no contest on Friday, May 15, to two counts of operating with a high blood alcohol content causing death with a prior convic

A Michigan principal acted quickly to stop an attempted abduction of a 9-year-old student, helping ensure the child’s safety and leading to a police response.

A new church will be opening west of Battle Creek on Sunday, May 24, at 10 a.m. Chapter 29 Church, located at 15 Lamora Ave. north of Springfield and off of Michigan Avenue, will be led by Pastor Casey Cadieux and his wife Christina. “My wife and I heard and...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Last month was the wettest April in the last 136 years in Kalamazoo County. Climate change is one reason, and that’s why the Kalamazoo County Drain Commission plans to install storm drains in the area between Lulu and Prouty on the Northside, where backyard flooding has become a regular iss

BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has given the city of Battle Creek a $3,300 grant to support stream cleanup efforts. The funding is part of EGLE’s Michigan Clean Water Corps Volunteer Stream Cleanup Program, which provides grants to communities...

LAWTON – What began as a project last fall to restore tombstones of service veterans buried in a Lawton cemetery, doing it out of the goodness of her heart to help out, continued last Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17. Laurie Bastian, of Lawton, and a group of...