ST. JOSEPH — Thanks to a more than $1 million donation, students at Grace Lutheran School in Royalton Township are now playing basketball and soccer in modern facilities.

ST. JOSEPH — The National Emergency Number Association is seeing a 30 percent staffing shortage on average at 911 dispatch centers across the nation, and Berrien County is no exception.

ST. JOSEPH — Bill Downey and Carol Sizer spent 90 minutes Tuesday contemplating life, death, aging and finding purpose in one’s later years.

ST. JOSEPH — A public plaza at Court and Pleasant streets in St. Joseph is expected to be rejuvenated over the next couple of years.

ST. JOSEPH — A painted mural will again grace the Lake Bluff Park stairway at Broad Street following approval this week by the St. Joseph City Commission.

ST. JOSEPH — St. Joseph’s downtown businesses and property owners will soon be able to apply to give their buildings a new look.

ST. JOSEPH — Throughout January, moving trucks have pulled in and out of the Lake View Terrace Highrise parking lot, shuffling residents and their belongings out of a building in need of repairs.

ST. JOSEPH — A Benton Harbor man on Thursday was found not guilty of reckless driving causing death and reckless driving causing serious bodily impairment.

ST. JOSEPH — Edgewater Safety Systems of St. Joseph was recently given a boost in funding for its wearable therapy device called Memesto.

ST. JOSEPH — The Maud Preston Palenske Memorial Library board named interim library director Paula Stakley as its new director.

ST. JOSEPH — A person can gamble with their own life all they want, but not other people’s lives, Berrien Assistant Prosecutor Amy Byrd told a Berrien County jury Tuesday.

ST. JOSEPH — Two people were arraigned in Berrien County Trial Court on Monday for numerous charges related to several shots being fired into a house in St. Joseph over the weekend.

ST. JOSEPH — Berrien County will continue to offer two programs to inmates in the county jail following action Thursday by commissioners.

ST. JOSEPH — One downtown St. Joseph studio plans to offer both yoga and boxing.

ST. JOSEPH — The Berrien County Board of Commissioners got a preliminary look Thursday at the proposed master plan for the county.

ST. JOSEPH — A new family has taken ownership of a St. Joseph bed and breakfast.

BERRIEN SPRINGS — Justice was on display Wednesday as 13 practical law students from St. Joseph High School participated in a mock trial at the old Berrien County Courthouse in Berrien Springs.

ST. JOSEPH — A public hearing set for Tuesday on a proposed development on the Nye's Apple Barn property in St. Joseph Township was postponed.

ST. JOSEPH — The St. Joseph school board awarded $9.5 million in contracts Monday night for its upcoming HVAC overhaul.

ST. JOSEPH — St. Joseph High School junior Anecia Galvin became the first student member of her district’s board of education.

ST. JOSEPH — A little over a year after a change in Michigan law regarding juveniles in the justice system, local officials have mixed views about the switch.

ST. JOSEPH — A man who was 17 when he raped and killed one woman and left another woman for dead has been resentenced to a term of 40-60 years in prison.

ST. JOSEPH — Dozens of high schoolers from St. Joseph High School, Kalamazoo RESA and Van Buren Tech chopped, stirred and simmered their original chili and cornbread recipes into existence Friday at the annual Culinary Chili Competition.

ST. JOSEPH — After 141 years, Rosback Co. in St. Joseph closed its doors for the last time on Dec. 31.

ST. JOSEPH — St. Joseph residents will have a chance to share their opinions on some master plans for two area parks next week.

ST. JOSEPH — Berrien County Road Department Manager Mark Heyliger said Jerry Peters knows when something is not right.

ST. JOSEPH — Visitors will find more than 20 ways to chase away the chill during the return of the annual Chili Tour in downtown St. Joseph.

ST. JOSEPH — St. Joseph Township residents will have another chance to air their views regarding a proposed development at the Nye’s Apple Barn property along Niles Road.

ST. JOSEPH — The Senior Nutrition Services building that houses the local Meals on Wheels will be renovated following action this week by the St. Joseph Township board.

ST. JOSEPH — After years of road studies, public hearings and home visits from St. Joseph Township officials, a portion of the Napier Avenue corridor will get sidewalks by the end of June.

ST. JOSEPH — Not a pew was empty at First Congregational Church in St. Joseph, as family, friends and community members gathered to remember Steve Upton.

ST. JOSEPH — Mac Elliott will serve another two years as Berrien County board chair, after commissioners held their organizational meeting Thursday.

ST. JOSEPH — A popular beer festival that takes over downtown St. Joseph returns for the last weekend in January.

ST. JOSEPH — Studies have shown that having a social worker increases the chance of parents who have lost their children through the courts being permanently reunited with them.

ST. JOSEPH — Corewell Health South, formerly Spectrum Health Lakeland, released the top five baby names of 2022, born at the BirthPlace in St. Joseph and Niles.

ST. JOSEPH — Three Berrien County Trial Court employees were honored recently at the court’s annual awards celebration.

ST. JOSEPH — When Jason Yonker started working as a police officer in 1994, the pay was $8 per hour.

ST. JOSEPH — Judge Mabel Mayfield will remain chief judge for the Berrien County Trial Court for 2023.

ST. JOSEPH — If you ask St. Joseph City Engineer Tim Zebell what keeps him up at night, he’ll tell you “funding.”

ST. JOSEPH — A fleet of six motorcycles the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office has been leasing for many years will soon belong to the department.

ST. JOSEPH — Each of Berrien County’s senior centers will receive $370,998 for the period of Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024, following action by the Berrien County Board of Commissioners on Thursday.

ST. JOSEPH — Berrien County Trial Court Judge Dennis Wiley on Thursday stood on the floor of the room where his children once attended kindergarten.

ST. JOSEPH — A Berrien County Trial Court judge wants to hold an evidentiary hearing before considering a motion for a new trial in the case of a Benton Harbor man convicted of killing his girlfriend.

ST. JOSEPH — The former BP gas station along Niles Road in Scottdale is aiming for a mid-April reopening as an Amoco station.

ST. JOSEPH — Thousands of Corewell Health patients were the recipients of fuzzy and festive gifts this week.