Author Archives: Ken Delaney
Road Commission of Kalamazoo County honored for projects, communication
LANSING, MI - The Road Commission of Kalamazoo County (RCKC), which recently moved into an expanded facility earlier this year, has now been honored with three statewide IMPRESS Awards and a People's ...
Apr 10, 2024 (courtesy County Road Association of Michigan)
Parents of Oxford school shooter each sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison
PONTIAC, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The parents of the Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison Tuesday. James and Jennifer Crumbley were convicted in separate trials of involun...
Apr 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ethan Robert Crumbley, 15, charged with first-degree murder in a high school shooting, poses in a jail booking photograph taken at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. December 1, 2021, in a combination photograph with his parents Jennifer Lynn Crumbley and James Robert Crumbley who were taken into custody December 3, 2021. Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Motorcyclist critically injured in crash on South Sprinkle Road
BRADY TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A motorcyclist was critically injured Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle that apparently turned in front of him. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office ...
Apr 09, 2024
City of Kalamazoo hydrant flushing begins next weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Kalamazoo Public Services Department will begin hydrant flushing this Sunday, April 14 and will continue through Monday, April 22. Most flushing will take plac...
Apr 09, 2024 Fire hydrant (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
DNR to hold prescribed burn Tuesday at Gourdneck Prairie in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is planning what they call a prescribed burn Tuesday, April 9 in the Gourdneck Prairie in the southwest portion of the City of P...
Apr 08, 2024
Final year of US-131 rebuilding in Kalamazoo County begins next Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A major multi-year roadway project in Kalamazoo County resumes next Monday. Work on the second year of the two-year, $51 million project to rebuild and repave 13.4 miles o...
Apr 08, 2024
Work to rebuild US-131 bridges over KL Avenue begins April 15 in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM)- While reconstruction work resumes on US 131 itself next week, work will also begin to rebuild the northbound and southbound US-131 bridges over KL Avenue and the Amtrak rai...
Apr 08, 2024 Biker loads his bike onto the Amtrak train. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Michigan gas prices drop this week, but still higher than last month
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices in Michigan are down eight cents compared to last week with drivers are now paying an average of $3.54 per gallon for regular unleaded. AAA Michigan says the pri...
Apr 08, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Tax credits of $3 million for new Kalamazoo and Battle Creek housing projects
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Housing projects in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek were among 22 across the state that are receiving financial support through a federal tax credits program. Low-Income Housin...
Apr 05, 2024 alexraths / Depositphotos.com
Hall critical of Whitmer program that offers rent assistance to some asylum seekers
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan House Republican Leader Matt Hall of Kalamazoo County Thursday criticized Governor Gretchen Whitmer's Newcomer Rental Subsidy program which they say offers benefits...
Apr 04, 2024 State Representative Matt Hall (left)
