Giveback night at Pizza Hut to raise funds for Silver Beach playground
The effort to raise funds for a new playground at Silver Beach County Park is about 72% complete.. ...Read Full Story
The effort to raise funds for a new playground at Silver Beach County Park is about 72% complete.. ...Read Full Story
Businesses and individuals from around the region have been honored with the 2024 Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber Business Recognition Awards.. ...Read Full Story
A new partnership to offer paid apprenticeships to high school students in Berrien County has been announced.. ...Read Full Story
(NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden is heading to East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday to mark one year since a train derailment spilled hazardous materials and toxins into the environment that forced many residents out of their homes.. ...Read Full Story
DETROIT (AP) — Last fall’s contentious United Auto Workers’ strike changed Ford’s relationship with the union to the point where it will “think carefully” about where it builds future vehicles, Ford’s top executive said Thursday.. ...Read Full Story
Tax credits could soon be coming to volunteer firefighters and first responders.. ...Read Full Story
A meeting will be held this month for the Lincoln Township Board of Trustees to establish the next township budget.. ...Read Full Story
The latest proposal for the development of the Nye’s Apple Barn property at 3151 Niles Road in St. Joseph Township has been tabled by the St. Joseph Township Planning Commission.. ...Read Full Story
New infrastructure to support electric vehicles is coming to Benton Harbor.. ...Read Full Story
The Berrien County Board of Commissioners has hired a new medical examiner.. ...Read Full Story
The city of Benton Harbor and the Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan are planning a Fair Housing Workshop for this month.. ...Read Full Story
Early voting for the February 27 primary will begin across Berrien County this Saturday.. ...Read Full Story
St. Joseph Public Schools Superintendent Jenny Fee could be leaving the community.. ...Read Full Story
Southwest Michigan has had some warmer than usual weather this month, and that could be affecting its fruit crops.. ...Read Full Story
Voters in Van Buren County will be able to start casting ballots in the February 27 primary on Saturday.. ...Read Full Story
Are you being financially faithful to your partner? Bankrate senior industry analyst Ted Rossman says many are not.. ...Read Full Story
Michigan’s small business owners are losing optimism.. ...Read Full Story
New legislation would require education on organ donation for ninth graders in Michigan public schools.. ...Read Full Story
(NEW YORK) — Fish, sea turtles, elephants, sharks, shorebirds and more of the world’s migratory species are in dire decline, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report from the United Nations.. ...Read Full Story
Michigan is being hit with a second wave of winter illnesses.. ...Read Full Story
The Allegan County Food Pantry Collaborative has kicked off its annual Peanut Butter Drive.. ...Read Full Story
Starting Thursday is the Y Country Cares St. Jude Radiothon.. ...Read Full Story
Coming up this month at Lake Michigan College will be the 2024 Cloverleaf Spelling Competition.. ...Read Full Story
Senator Gary Peters has introduced legislation intended to strengthen the nation’s workforce in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other technologies.. ...Read Full Story
Michigan Works is offering everyone a free one-week certification to help workers kick start a career in manufacturing.. ...Read Full Story
Whirlpool Corporation announced late Wednesday that after 2024, the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship is not returning to Harbor Shores.. ...Read Full Story
Lincoln Township has purchased 14.2 acres of property along Hickory Creek to be used as part of a trail.. ...Read Full Story
A body has been found along the Lake Michigan shore in Allegan County.. ...Read Full Story
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election testified Wednesday that he did not know how the electoral process worked and never intended to make a false public record.. ...Read Full Story
Michigan joined 20 other states, plus the District of Columbia, to enact an Extreme Protection Order law, this week. It’s also known as a red flag law.. ...Read Full Story
The economy in west Michigan is slowing, but it’s not all bad news. That’s according to new research from Brian Long, the director of supply management research at Grand Valley State University’s College of Business.. ...Read Full Story
It’s been one year since the shootings at Michigan State University in which three students were killed, including Alex Verner of Clawson.. ...Read Full Story
DETROIT (AP) — A man in prison for nearly 60 years was eligible for immediate release Tuesday after a Detroit-area judge reduced his sentence, the result of a major change in how Michigan treats 18-year-olds convicted of murder.. ...Read Full Story
From the Associated Press — A fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election, an official testified Tuesday during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly serving as false electors.. ...Read Full Story
A proposal to build a fitness center and some housing at 1189 Lydia Drive in St. Joseph Township has been put on hold by the St. Joseph Township Planning Commission.. ...Read Full Story
It took the support of the entire community to help the Van Buren County Historical Society repair its museum in Hartford.. ...Read Full Story
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is expanding its Michigan Chemical Exposure Monitoring project into Benton Harbor and Benton Township.. ...Read Full Story
St. Joseph City Commissioners have rejected a proposal to allow the parking of RVs and other recreational vehicles in residential driveways.. ...Read Full Story
There’s a major renovation project planned at the public safety building in Hagar Township.. ...Read Full Story
A civics education project from Chicago is coming to Benton Harbor and St. Joseph this weekend.. ...Read Full Story
(WICHITA, Kan.) — A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the theft and destruction of a statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was stolen from a Kansas park last month, authorities announced on Tuesday.. ...Read Full Story
(NEW YORK) — What is a day in the life of an Alaskan polar bear like? Researchers recently found out after strapping collar cameras to several bears.. ...Read Full Story
Do you know the three branches of government? Not everyone does and that’s why the Michigan Chamber of Commerce is going to have a competition for middle schoolers.. ...Read Full Story
St. Joseph High School announced this week they will be inducting four new member into the Athletic Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place at halftime of their boys basketball game against Portage Northern, (which will be live on News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM). The four new members are (in order of year of graduation), Roger Morrissett (Class of 1972), Ethan Schweir (Class of 2008), Matthew Mattox (Class of 2009), Rachel Bendewald (Class of 2013).. ...Read Full Story
People were busy looking up things on Google before and during the Super Bowl Sunday night.. ...Read Full Story
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz spent the past year trying to suppress the images, seared into his memory, of the gunman who entered his classroom at Michigan State University, killed two of his students and left others with critical wounds.. ...Read Full Story
(INDIANAPOLIS) — Most of America’s eyes on Sunday might have been on Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas but about halfway across the country 1,600 miles away in Indiana, the Indianapolis Zoo celebrated a different kind of victory — the birth of a rare white rhino.. ...Read Full Story
WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (AP) — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.. ...Read Full Story
St. Joseph City Commissioners have approved the special event permit for the 2024 Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff.. ...Read Full Story
The Michigan Reconnect program is making its three-year anniversary.. ...Read Full Story
Congressman Bill Huizenga has joined colleagues from around the region to introduce a reauthorization of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.. ...Read Full Story
Repairs are finished at the Van Buren County Historical Society’s museum in Hartford, and volunteers are preparing to move everything back in.. ...Read Full Story
18 police officers around Michigan have graduated from the latest Michigan State Police Teaching, Educating, and Mentoring School Liaison Program, or TEAM.. ...Read Full Story
This Valentines Day, no one wants to receive the gift of an STD. Berrien County Health Department community health services supervisor Dionne Rigozzi tells us that’s why those who are sexually active and not in a monogamous relationship should get tested on a regular basis.. ...Read Full Story
Police have identified a person of interest in two shootings at Briarwood Apartments in Benton Township on Sunday. However, they’re not releasing any additional information on that person.. ...Read Full Story
Two Benton Harbor men are facing charges after a couple of drug raids in Benton Harbor and Benton Township Thursday.. ...Read Full Story