In June, a man stole a print insured for $10,000 from Western Michigan University’s Richmond Center for Visual Arts. In an email, WMU spokesperson Paula Davis said the art "has been recovered but it is not currently in WMU’s possession." The university ha... See more
Stanley Sackett drags a rake across a gravel road on Kalamazoo Valley Community College's Texas Township campus. He's the co-organizer of "Play Pétanque Monday Mornings!" and he's trying to even out the terrain ahead of the first game of the season. Co-le... See more
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