Author Archives: Ken Delaney
$40 million airport expansion could receive FAA approval next month
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Federal Aviation Administration hearing is set for next month on a proposed $40 million expansion project for the Kalamazoo Battle Creek International Airport. Airport D...
Feb 22, 2024 Image from Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport's Facebook page.
Vice President Harris to speak in Grand Rapids this afternoon
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Vice President Kamala Harris is making her fourth visit to Michigan today. The visit comes ahead of the state's presidential primary next Tuesday and is part of the vic...
Feb 22, 2024 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC
Manager charged with secretly recording a meeting of Kalamazoo Township officials fired
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A week after being charged with eavesdropping on a private meeting, Kalamazoo Township Manager Dexter Mitchell has been fired. He has been charged with a felony f...
Feb 22, 2024 Kalamazoo Township Manager Dexter Mitchell (courtesy Kalamazoo Township)
Kalamazoo County commissioner becomes the latest to announce run for 40th House District seat
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There are now at least two Democrats vying for the Michigan House of Representatives seat currently held by Kalamazoo's Christine Morse. Texas Township firefighter, EMT, a...
Feb 22, 2024 (courtesy Abby Wheeler for State Rep)
Nessel files charges against two involved in Unlock Michigan effort, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey not charged
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey will not be facing any charges, but Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel unveiled criminal charges Wednesday against two longtime...
Feb 21, 2024 Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announces charges against two political fundraisers during a Wednesday news conference Feb 21, 2023
Kalamazoo man convicted of shooting to death another man during a shoe purchase set up on Facebook
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been convicted of fatally shooting another man he was meeting to sell shoes to in December 2022. Jalani Darshawn Nowling was convicted last week of was...
Feb 21, 2024 A mugshot of Jalani Nowling (courtesy Kalamazoo County Jail)
Broncos run away from Miami at home Tuesday to snap a six game losing streak
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University men's basketball team completed a season sweep over Miami Tuesday night with a 77-58 win over the RedHawks at University Arena. It also sna...
Feb 21, 2024 (courtesy Ashley Huss, WMU Photographer)
WMU's Dunbar Hall set to reopen next month after $42 million renovation and expansion
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - When Western Michigan University students and staff return from Spring Break March 11, they will get their first to see the newly renovated Dunbar Hall on campus. After th...
Feb 21, 2024 Dunbar Hall under renovation at Western Michigan University (courtesy WMU webcam)
With clean-up completed, EPA looking to remove Kalamazoo site from its Superfund list
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Clean-up work for two contaminated sites on six acres along Davis Creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River, has been completed. The Environmental Protection Agency made...
Feb 20, 2024 EPA sign board showing superfund site (Image courtesy of EPA)
Body found in Kalamazoo River, may be motorcyclist who fled from police January 1
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety believes they have recovered the body of a man who abandoned his motorcycle and ran into the Kalamazoo River to evade police last...
Feb 20, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
