When Encore photographer Brian K.
Meg Blinkiewicz knew the Kalamazoo Youth Development Network (KYD Network) was dipping its toes into the shallow end of its potential.
As climate change and the effects of extreme weather are accelerating around the world, so too is the local response to what the United N
A large number of volunteers and a high volume of donations — those were two of the needs Joann Wespinter and 50 other members of what wa
Everything about Healthy House for Women feels like a home. Each room is painted a different trendy color — blues, grays, purples.
When Beth Schroeder arrives for class at Anytime Fitness in Portage, her friend Paula Fisher waits with snacks: five dog biscuits.
A recently organized effort to clean headstones and obelisks marking the graves of some of Kalamazoo’s most well-known departed residents
Adrian Vazquez remembers the anxious tone in a little girl’s voice and how it hurt his heart.
Growing up on the north side of Kalamazoo, Charlene Taylor experienced firsthand the many challenges facing the neighborhood, although sh
Each day across the country 22 patients die waiting for transplant organs to become available.
Samantha Irby is a funny person, but she’ll tell you she’
The work is done in small increments, like each step a cl
Under cover of darkness on a Sunday evening, when police
WMU theater professor Lofton Durham conceived of and oversees the Mostly Medieval Theatre Festival.
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