Author Archives: Ken Delaney
Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes prepared to help is SNAP benefits are curtailed due to federal government shutdown
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In Kalamazoo County, there are 35,183 recipients of SNAP benefits, including 39% who are under the age of 18, and they are in danger of losing those food benefits if the f...
Oct 23, 2025
Chinese battery company abandons plan to build Michigan plant
BIG RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Chinese battery company Gotion has abandoned a plan to build a $2.4 billion plant in Michigan to produce material for electric vehicles, the state said Thursday. The plan...
Oct 23, 2025 An artist's rendering of the proposed Gotion battery plant in Big Rapids, MI (courtesy Michigan Economic Development Corporation)
Fuel Wood Harvest begins next month in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Portage is now accepting applications for Fuel Wood Harvest Permits as part of the city's Timber Harvest Program, which launches November 1. City officials say t...
Oct 23, 2025 (courtesy City of Portage)
School bus slides off roadway in Branch County's Algansee Township, no serious injuries to driver or students
ALGANSEE TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - There were no serious injuries as a Pansophia Academy school bus slid off the road and ended up partially on its side in Branch County's Algansee Township Wednesday morn...
Oct 22, 2025 A Pansophia Academy school bus slid of the roadway and into a ditch on Central Road October 22, 2025 (courtesy Branch County Sheriff's Office)
Anonymous $1.52 million gift to WMed will expand access to child and adolescent psychiatry care in Southwest Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials with the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine say a recent $1.52 million gift from anonymous donors in the Kalamazoo community will ...
Oct 21, 2025 (courtesy Western Michigan University)
Battle Creek Police investigating fatal motorcycle crash on SW Capital Avenue
BATTLE CREEK, Mi (WKZO AM/FM) - A 24-year-old man who had been riding a motorcycle collided with another vehicle and was killed Monday afternoon in Battle Creek. The Battle Creek Police Department say...
Oct 21, 2025 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
YWCA Kalamazoo warns of service reductions with new state budget, appealing to community for funding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials with YWCA Kalamazoo say they are facing major cuts from the Michigan state budget passed earlier this month, and they say that puts lives are on the line. "For a...
Oct 20, 2025 Maryland GovPics / CC
Two separate firearms arrests over the weekend in Calhoun County
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office made two separate firearms-related arrests in the City of Springfield over the weekend as part of what they say are ongoing patrol ef...
Oct 20, 2025
No injuries as Battle Creek police find two explosive devices
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There were no injuries as Battle Creek Police responded to a report of an explosion on Ridge Street that resulted in officers finding two explosive devices late Friday ...
Oct 20, 2025
KDPS announces charges in 2023 fatal shooting on Stockbridge Avenue
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The suspect in a 2023 fatal drive-by shooting in Kalamazoo has been arraigned on murder charges. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says 23-year-old Raymond C. Moor...
Oct 20, 2025 zimmytws / Depositphotos.com
