Kalamazoo County News

A traffic stop led to the discovery of two methamphetamine labs and the arrest of three people early Sunday.

A Western Michigan University student was jailed Friday after two incidents in three days during which police allege they spotted him driving the wrong way on two local roads and arrested him for drunken driving.

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. Officials with the Michigan Department of Transportation say that lanes of eastbound I-94 will be closed for repairs Friday.

Authorities in western Michigan say they have arrested a person twice in three days for driving the wrong way down the highway Kalamazoo County deputies said they were alerted about 1:30 a.m. Friday after several people called 911 when they passed the unidentified driver traveling south on northbound U.S. 131.

Kalamazoo County leaders want to make sure the area gets its full share of some $400 billion in federal money at stake in the 2010 census.

Kalamazoo County commissioners kept discussion of a downtown-Kalamazoo arena alive Tuesday.

An East Leroy woman who police say led them on a chase through three counties at speeds that eclipsed 100 mph was arraigned on two charges Monday.

Five people were hurt, one of them critically when their vehicle crashed in southern Kalamazoo County Monday night.

The Kalamazoo County H1N1 flu vaccine clinic scheduled for Friday is expected to be full, so officials have added another clinic to be held Thursday, November 19.

Authorities say a 38-year-old Battle Creek-area woman led police on a high-speed chase at speeds topping 100 mph.

A 28-year-old Kalamazoo County Jail inmate is facing five years in prison after authorities allege the individual smuggled narcotics into the facility at 1500 Lamont St.

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. A video of a fight in the halls of a Portage school is highlighting a much bigger problem.

The new location for the murder trial of the couple accused of their daughter's death is known.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. The drawings depict a grand proposal, but is the arena a good fit for Kalamazoo? On Wednesday night the community took a hard look at transforming a large block into an $81 million arena.

On Wednesday night, a committee that researched the arena project presented the detailed plans to the Kalamazoo County Commission for the first time.

The driver of a car that police said went the wrong way down U.S. 131 and slammed into a truck early this morning was hospitalized in serious condition.

Racism and the law is the topic of a discussion to be held Nov. 12 at Kalamazoo College.

So many people were calling Kalamazoo County's H1N1 flu clinic reservation line this morning to reserve a dose at a clinic set for this Friday that the volume brought the phone system down for almost two hours.

Steve Springsdorf, president of the Greater Kalamazoo YMCA. When the YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo was chosen to spearhead a wellness initiative aimed at changing local public policy, the leadership at the not-for-profit considered it an opportunity to further the wellness movement under way throughout the region.

Kalamazoo's top political duo will remain unchanged after voters turned out in high numbers Tuesday to return Bobby Hopewell as mayor and Hannah McKinney as vice mayor.