The City of Kalamazoo is combating high temperatures by opening fire hydrants for community members to cool off in.

National Nurses United says cuts to Medicaid and Medicare passed last year may lead to services being cut at the hospital.

Kalamazoo County issued an advisory for the lake in late May, after sampling suggested the presence of harmful bacteria.

According to the World Health Organization, vulnerability to heat can be impacted by factors like age and physical health, but also things like economic status and access to cooling resources.

A union representative said contract negotiations appeared to be going well this weekend, but they fell apart Monday.

A plan to cut down thousands of trees along rural roads in Kalamazoo County has some residents organizing against it.

The order also declares June to be Gun Violence Prevention Month.

Battery Energy Storage Systems, or BESS, allow for generated energy to be used at a later date. But communities have mixed feelings about them. In Comstock, a proposal to build large-scale battery storage caused controversy.

A paper by a pair of professors at a medical school in Kalamazoo has stirred controversy on social media and drawn the attention of fact-checking website Snopes.

Story Beat with Gwendolyn Hooker