Kalamazoo News

Author visits and musical, dance and theatrical performances celebrating Russian culture will be integral to the week-long Kalamazoo-Pushkin Partnership's 14th annual Kalamazoo Russian Festival, which begins this Saturday.

A little bit of good voting news from yesterday: Kalamazoo, MI has added sexual orientation and gender identity to its laws banning discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

Jeff and Susanne Remelius had a good life in Tennessee, so they hesitated when Jeff was offered the job of facilities manager for Kalamazoo's Wings Stadium.

The man charged with repairing the financial crisis at Detroit Public Schools praised Kalamazoo voters Saturday for passing the anti-discrimination ordinance, and he urged NAACP members to build a ``more fair future for our youth.'' Robert Bobb, Kalamazoo's first black city manager, made his remarks to several hundred people who attended the ...

The death toll from h1n1 in Kalamazoo County climbed to three this week. On Wednesday, 10-year-old Kamren Blakely died from the disease.

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. A Kalamazoo County man will face charges in a recent double shooting that left one man dead.

A Marcellus woman is hospitalized after she swerved to avoid a deer and her car struck a tree and rolled over in Van Buren County early Saturday.

Gay-rights ballot issues touch a nerve in Kalamazoo that sends voters to the polls in big numbers.

Kalamazoo investigators have identified the body of a murdered man found in the trunk of a car Thursday afternoon.

Several years ago, Kmart saved Christmas for Carol Jennings. With her husband laid off and little money to spare, Jennings bought presents for her two children using Kmart's layaway plan.

Reports from Kalamazoo, Mich., suggest that a nondiscrimination ordinance to protect the rights of LGBT people drove high voter turnout on Tuesday.

Police late Thursday were investigating a body found inside the trunk of a car on the city's east side, but were releasing little other information.

Voters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, passed an ordinance that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity this Election Day with nearly 62 percent voting in favor of the measure.

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.

Over the years, Joyce Lynn Jones-Davis has heard a plethora of songs that honor military soldiers.

People might notice vehicles traveling around Kalamazoo County with a new logo on the side.

It took a while, but the gas stations on West Main Street in Kalamazoo finally came down in their price for regular.

Gazette Staff Reports Plenty of family-friendly Halloween activities are planned today, including some that are indoors.

In an incident that one command officer described as ``unique,'' a deer had to be shot by police Tuesday after it struck its head on a building and collapsed in front of a restaurant in downtown Kalamazoo.

With 18 of 19 precincts and all absentee-voter ballots counted, the six incumbents running for re-election to the Kalamazoo City Commission were the top vote-getters. Terry Kuseske was leading among the newcomers vying for seats on the seven-member commission.