Kalamazoo County News

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.

Kalamazoo County has announced its second confirmed H1N1 flu-related death. A woman in her late 20s died at her home on Oct.

The 133 employees of the two Kmart stores in Kalamazoo County were notified this morning that their stores will close next year.

A 26-year-old Kalamazoo man will face murder and other charges in a shooting last week that killed a man and injured another.

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

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

A third person has been charged with delivering the heroin that killed Portage teen Amy Bousfield in a June 2008 overdose.

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. Tuesday saw a new arrest and charges in the overdose death of a Portage teenager.

A Kalamazoo man has entered a plea on methamphetamine charges which included a fire this year at a Battle Creek motel.

A Portage man was charged Tuesday with armed robbery, and police say he robbed a party store in Otsego earlier this month.

Police have closed their six-month investigation of a house fire in Texas Township that killed four children and a 22-year-old woman, authorities said Thursday.

Maple Street and South Westnedge are currently closed to traffic after a car broke off a transformer pole early Saturday.

Firefighters are responding to a report of a house fire just west of Portage. Texas Township firefighters and the South Kalamazoo County Fire Authority were called just before 3 p.m. to the 8200 block of South 10th Street on a report of a working house fire.

Investigators say they did not find the exact cause for a deadly fire in Kalamazoo County six months ago, but believe a child playing with a lighter or matches started the fire.

A candidate in the nonpartisan Kalamazoo City Commission election is questioning why the Democratic Party has mailed a political attack flier targeting him.

The Kalamazoo County Health Department closed down a flu clinic today, after hundreds of people showed up to get the H1N1 vaccine.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. Thursday was the first day that the H1N1 vaccine became available to the public in Kalamazoo and the line stretched out of the Health Department building and down a long sidewalk.

WEST MICHIGAN Newschannel 3 has confirmed two deaths related to H1N1 in two West Michigan counties.

The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners approved a lean budget Tuesday. ``It's a budget that maintains services without laying people off,'' said board Chairman David Buskirk, D-Kalamazoo. The $85.59 million budget calls to spend $41,900 less than 2009.