One sign of Earth Day at Western Michigan University was a table for a longstanding campus environmental group. Old meeting notices in the Western Herald newspaper archive show that Students for a Sustainable Earth has been around since at least 1985. At ... See more
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has asked President Donald Trump to declare the March 6th tornadoes that swept through Southwest Michigan a major disaster. In a statement Wednesday, the governor noted that the tornadoes killed four people. They also damaged hom... See more
Michigan Senators Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters have questions about staffing, equipment and decisions at the National Weather Service. That’s after four people died in tornadoes that ripped across southern Michigan earlier this month. The weather servic... See more
By the time Andy Robins became WMUK's second news director in 1998, he had already reported for the station for more than a decade. He would go on to lead the news department for 23 years, until his retirement just four years ago. Andy was known for the c... See more
The National Weather Service says people should be aware of rapidly-changing conditions, as winter weather rolls through West Michigan during a busy holiday travel time. On Wednesday afternoon, Calhoun, Allegan, Barry, Kalamazoo and Van Buren Counties wer... See more