GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Kalamazoo man has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for drug charges. Andrew Birge, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, announced that Michael Warren Smith Jr. had been sentenced to 327 months in prison for possessing and intending to sell methamphetamines, fentanyl and cocaine.

Since unveiling its newly expanded Concourse A in June 2023, the airport has added a variety of familiar concessions, and some unique only to West Michigan. Local options added last year include Uccello’s Ristorante and Blue Bridge Market, which sells goods from Nantucket Baking Company and Madcap Coffee.

No one got hurt after a semi-truck crashed in Kalamazoo on Monday, according to Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (KDPS).

"Sadly, due to President Trump's Executive Order, MIRC has received notice to stop work on our highly valued Detroit Immigration Court Helpdesk Program," the group said in the post. "We are working to find resources so our Helpdesk staff can continue providing services from our offices."

Michigan is marking an average gas price of $3.09 per gallon of regular unleaded gas, though much of West Michigan is seeing prices much lower than that.

A chain reaction crash developed Tuesday morning in white-out conditions along Interstate 94 in West Michigan.

The bar and restaurant features eight Bell’s beers on tap, including some that are only available at the Kalamazoo brewpub.

A Kalamazoo man will go to prison on a federal possession charge involving fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As an Arctic blast continues to freeze West Michigan, schools have started to announce closures for Tuesday. This is the second day in a row that some schools have closed with several closing on Monday due to the weather or in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“In cold temperatures like this, when the firefighters stop, and they have sweat underneath. Once they lose the protection of that vapor barrier, they never get it back,” a Fire Lieutenant with The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said.

A developer in northeast Michigan, Konczak owns B Cubed Manufacturing which makes modular drive-thru buildings such as the ones for Biggby Coffee’s drive-thru locations. Konczak said the brand is known for its history of providing "value to consumers and their families.”

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