Kalamazoo MI

The maternity staff at Corewell Health’s Butterworth Hospital didn’t have to wait long to welcome its first baby of the new year.

A new Tokyo Grill sushi buffet is opening in Plainwell expanding the small-town dining scene.

History has a home on the walls of Battle Creek’s Brown Family Dentistry. Since 2023, Dr. David Brown has been collecting photos of local veterans and police officers and displaying them in his practice. The wall features snapshots and portraits of military personnel from World War II up to the 2000s.

ANTWERP TWP, MI — Two vehicles were involved in a crash less than 5 miles southeast of Paw Paw in southwest Michigan on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 31, state police officials reported. A 40-year-old Coloma man was waiting for his vehicle to be towed near Almena Drive and...

Mother Nature provided the Barry County Sheriff’s Office with a busy day on Monday, Dec. 29, as snow and high winds whipped through Barry County and neighboring areas in southwest Michigan. According to weather reports, less than an inch of snow fell on Monday. But the precipitation was accompanied...

The St. Joseph County Police Department responded to around 66 calls between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday. About half of those calls were due to crashes and slide-offs. Two marked police cruisers were also struck while officers worked on crashes. One was stuck by a semi, and another was struck by a plow. Both...

Harper Creek alumna Dani Deetté has performed side by side with some of the acting industry’s most established names, including Clint Eastwood, Kathy Bates, Bill Pullman and Sylvester Stallone. Although acting was not her first career, she did gain some stage experience as a child, participating in a few community...

VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. — A man was hospitalized after a car hit his towed vehicle on Almena Drive and M-40 near Lawton late Wednesday night. News Channel 3 crews arrived on-scene at 11 p.m. and observed at least two vehicles being pulled by a wrecker. A 40-year-old Coloma...

As 2025 comes to a close, The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is again asking the public for tips to solve homicide cases that happened over the past three years — most in 2023.

While talking with Discover Kalamazoo, I learned that tax revenue for economy hotels was down slightly this year.