Author Archives: Ken Delaney
Just over a week after devastating ice storm, area faces heavy snowfall, Winter Storm Warning
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Old Man Winter is not done yet, with heavy snow is predicted from the Upper Midwest to New England today. Kalamazoo County and the surrounding area is under a Winter Storm...
Mar 03, 2023 (courtesy National Weather Service Grand Rapids)
Man who allegedly stole pick-up in Galesburg leads police on six county chase Thursday
REED CITY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police have arrested a man who led officers on a chase in six counties yesterday. They say he stole a Dodge Ram pick-up truck in Galesburg around 8:45 a.m. yesterday and M...
Mar 03, 2023 Jason Rojas / CC
KPS Board of Education gets report card on progress of elementary and middle school students
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There were some interesting findings in a new assessment of how Kalamazoo Public Schools students are doing halfway through the new school year. The KPS Board of Education...
Feb 28, 2023 A chart showing how various demographic groups in the Kalamazoo Public Schools high Schools are performing since the COVID-19 pandemic (courtesy KPS)
Gas prices increase slightly this week in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - AAA Michigan says gas prices in the state are up two cents a gallon on average from last week. Michigan drivers are now paying an average of $3.29 per gallon for regular un...
Feb 27, 2023 (courtesy AAA Michigan)
Consumers Energy hopes for full power restoration by the end of Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy has restored power to over 250,000 customers across southern Michigan communities that were blanketed with up to a half-inch of ice. As of 8:45 a.m. Monda...
Feb 27, 2023 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
The number is dropping, but thousands still without power
KALAMAZOO, MI ( WKZO AM/FM) - Over 600 Consumers Energy crews, contractors and lineworkers from outside Michigan started their final push Sunday to restore power to homes and businesses affected by th...
Feb 26, 2023
City of Portage also declares local state of emergency following this week's ice storm
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Portage has joined the City of Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo County in declaring a local state of emergency following this week's ice storm. City Manager Pat McGinnis ...
Feb 24, 2023 (courtesy of John McNeill)
"Wrongly convicted" man released from prison in Coldwater after 21 years behind bars
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man who the State of Michigan now says was wrongly convicted of a double murder 21 years ago was released from the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater ...
Feb 24, 2023 Jeff Titus speaks with reporters outside Lakeland Correctional Facility, Coldwater MI Feb 24, 2023 (screenshot courtesy of WOOD-TV 8)
City of Battle Creek to begin storm related citywide tree debris pickup next week
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As city and Consumers Energy crews work to clean up hundreds of trees down and thousands of power lines down, the City of Battle Creek will provide citywide tree debris...
Feb 24, 2023 (courtesy City of Battle Creek)
State of emergency declared for Kalamazoo County and the City of Kalamazoo in the wake of ice storm
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A state of emergency has been declared for Kalamazoo County and the City of Kalamazoo, after massive power outages, downed trees and power lines from Wednesday's ice storm...
Feb 24, 2023 City crews clean up ice storm damage Feb 23, 2023 (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
