Calhoun County

A local lawmaker accused of touching a woman inappropriately during a medical exam earlier this year will be arraigned on charges next week

A lengthy investigation by the Albion Department of Public Safety has led to the arrests of four men, connected to the death of Quinton Danell Williams during the summer of 2020. In a Facebook post, officials with the department said that the arrests were made after 15 months and thousands of hours of investigations. ...

Calhoun County will be holding a household hazardous waste collection, in a couple of weeks. It all takes place on Saturday, October 23rd, from 9 a.m. till Noon.

There will be many things planned. We are working on some new stuff this year. More details to come. Trick or treating on Saturday, campsite decorating contest, costume contest, activities, wagon rides, tractor train and more.

When will your power be restored? We have estimates for Michigan outages.

The Calhoun County Board of Commissioners earlier this year moved to set up a county task force to address broadband issues. It’s an advisory panel that does not have the power to order things to happen. But the task force certainly has the support and ear of county commissioners.

It’s been 8 weeks now since the devastating freeze that hit the area in early May. Many farmers still don’t have a full assessment yet of crop and orchard damages. But the government needs to hear from farmers within just a couple of weeks about their desire to apply for available federal disaster loans.

Western Michigan University again shows on the ongoing list with 929 students, faculty and staff involved there. Kalamazoo College with less than 40 cases lingers on the list. So does Portage Central Elementary and Kalamazoo’s Gilden Woods Elementary.

Three Detroit area attorneys are now charged as criminals. They’re accused of using the very court system they swore to serve, as a means to commit fraud. An unknown number of people in Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties have been their victims.

Battle Creek and Kalamazoo are among more than a handful of Michigan metropolitan areas that are the nation’s top hotpots for the COVID-19 virus. That's the assessment from the New York Times.