Kalamazoo MI

Walk in the main entrance of WMU’s student center and you’ll see Hou Jia, a glass-walled restaurant with a bar at the front. It’s owned by Jim Chiang, who also owns local Chinese restaurant chain Hunan Gardens. Chiang said the restaurant and bar boasts a Taiwanese-fusion inspired...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Local officials are working together on a plan to shelter those without homes during the coming cold weather months. Kalamazoo County is contributing $396,750 and the city of Kalamazoo will provide another $300,000 for the effort. Officials are now looking for providers to do the work.

Faced with declining numbers since the pandemic, a music venue and a restaurant in Otsego are both closing.

Kalamazoo County commissioners voted to enter a purchase agreement for the McDonald's property right across the street from the administration building.

Two men accused of human trafficking after deputies say they forced a woman to go into a bank and open an account have entered pleas in the 2023 case.

CENTREVILLE — Leaders of every school district in St. Joseph County are urging action by state lawmakers as a deadline to pass a state budget looms in just under two weeks. In a letter to county families and staff on Sept. 3, ISD Superintendent Teresa Belote, as well as the superintendents of all nine school...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — The Pavillion Township Planning commission postponed action Thursday on a proposed ordinance change to support a potential data center during a meeting that drew a few dozen people. Real estate development firm Franklin Partners visited the township last month to discuss the possibility of a...

KALAMAZOO, MI — It’s been 40 years since Larry Bell founded Bell’s Brewery with a simple 15-gallon soup kettle in Kalamazoo. Now, four years after Bell sold his namesake brewery to Lion, creating a craft partnership with New Belgium Brewing in the process, his beer and legacy is available in all 50 states.

A Kalamazoo man will spend decades in prison for drug trafficking. 46-year-old Keith Smith of Kalamazoo was sentenced to 30 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to a release from the office of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Timothy VerHey. Crime:...

After Gene "The Pumpkin Man" Rhodes passed at 88, his farm went quiet this fall. Rhodes' great-nephew, Steele Evans, and his wife Sadie Evans are transforming the property into Evans Acres Family Farm.