Author Archives: Ken Delaney
VA Medical Center in Battle Creek to receive infrastructure improvements
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As part of a restructuring of funding through the Department of Veterans Affairs, the VA Medical Center in Battle Creek will be getting upgrades in facilities and techn...
Sep 09, 2025
Consumers Energy reaches agreement to sell 13 Michigan hydroelectric dams, including one in Allegan County
JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy today announced it has signed a purchase agreement to sell its 13 hydroelectric dams along five Michigan rivers, including the 2.55 megawatt Calkins Bridge ...
Sep 09, 2025 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
Local efforts underway to collect petition signatures for proposal to tax the rich to increase funding for public schools
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A group of educators and parents are collecting signatures on a petition drive to tax the rich to increase funding for public schools. The organization is called Invest in...
Sep 09, 2025
Business community homelessness and housing input session this Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The business community is being invited to help shape Kalamazoo's draft housing framework. The event will be held this Thursday, September 11 from 8:00-9:30 a.m. at The Ca...
Sep 09, 2025
Search continues for missing man in Calhoun County's Fredonia Township
FREDONIA TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help as deputies try to find a 47-year-old man who went missing Sunday. Dale Higley walked away from...
Sep 08, 2025 Dale Higley (courtesy Calhoun County Sheriff's Office)
AAA: Michigan gas prices decrease 13 cents from a week ago
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices in Michigan are down 13 cents from last week, with drivers are now paying an average of $3.18 per gallon for regular unleaded. That price is 10 cents less than t...
Sep 08, 2025
Officials say search for new Kalamazoo City Manager is on track
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo City Commission has set some dates for their City Manager Search, which ad hoc-committee Chair Jeanne Hess says is on schedule. Current City Manager Jim Rits...
Sep 08, 2025 City of Kalamazoo logo
Man arrested for breaking into business in Cooper Township
COOPER TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 24-year-old man is in custody for allegedly throwing and brick through a window and breaking into a business in Kalamazoo County's Cooper Township late Friday nigh...
Sep 07, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil).
KDPS investigates non-fatal shooting on Mabel Street
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One teen was injured Friday night after multiple shots were fired on Kalamazoo's Northside. Just after 9:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (KDPS) officers patr...
Sep 07, 2025 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Senator McCann says Amtrak track shutdown later this month "appears to be poor planning and a troubling lack of advance warning"
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Construction work along the track for the Amtrak Wolverine and Blue Water routes that pass through Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties will mean the lines will be shutdown for ...
Sep 04, 2025 Biker loads his bike onto the Amtrak train. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
