New Buffalo News

Tourism officials along Lake Michigan say getting a 170-mile section of U.S. 31 from the Indiana border north to Ludington designated as a state historic route will help bring more tourists to Lakeshore communities.

The spread-out excursion focuses on the Midwest through mid-December. Following a break for the holidays, the rock quintet will return to the road for one January date, scheduled for Jan.

A Michigan-based rock group that once scored a national hit will be playing in New Buffalo next week.

The Berrien County Sheriffs Department says that a man was ticketed on Sunday after he crashed his car into a train in New Buffalo Township.

NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP a * A Michigan driver will have to pay up after slamming into a train on Sunday.

New Buffalo Public Schools is again pocketing the most - more than $2 million - from the latest round of community disbursements from Four Winds Casino.

Online poker show The Poker Show will have a live season finale. The show, sponsored by online poker room Boyle Poker, will have WSOP reflections and final table reports.

Three arrests have been made in a New Buffalo home break-in. City Police say that the home invasion happened on November third in the 400 block of South Berrien Street, and on the sixth of this month, two 18 year year-olds and one 16 year-old were brought into custody.

As conclusion to a two and one-half-year effort to identify historic tourism-related sites along the West Michigan shoreline from New Buffalo to Ludington, the State Historic Preservation Office will be in Grand Haven on November 17 to talk about the programs available for protecting those and other historic sites in West Michigan.

New Buffalo in western Michigan has a new waterfront train station and new connections with Amtrak.

The Pokagon Fund has announced its latest round of grants. The fund was set up to distribute a portion of the electronic gaming revenues from the Four Winds Casino to area community projects, and Executive Director Mary Dunbar said this week that more than 89-thousand dollars are being given out for the months of September and October.

Lake Erie: Good for bass in the Hot Pond near the Monroe Power Plant. Detroit River: Walleye have been caught off Gibraltar when using a jig and minnow.

The World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago event is going strong and poker pro Freddy Deeb is in the lead.

If you're in one of the high priority groups, you can get your swine flu vaccine Tuesday in New Buffalo.

Amtrak passenger service today will start rolling into the lakefront at New Buffalo with round trips to Chicago that local business owners hope brings with it more customers.

Starting this week, you'll be able to hop on a non-stop train between New Buffalo and Chicago.

Bonus slot jackpots funded by a percentage of money that players collectively wager on the machines is a great way for casino goers to reap what amounts to incentive cash rewards.

Train travel has been around a long time but there was a period only a few decades ago when the passenger variety didn't exist in southwestern Michigan.

The Berrien County Health Department has finalized the H1N1 vaccination clinic schedule and will start clinics on Saturday.

State troopers made the biggest marijuana bust in West Michigan history when they pulled over a commercial truck near New Buffalo.