Author Archives: Ken Delaney
City of Kalamazoo $60-million water system upgrade to begin Monday,
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A three year $60-million infrastructure project for the City of Kalamazoo's water system is scheduled to begin Monday, September 8. will soon begin a major infrastructure ...
Sep 04, 2025 Joe Shlabotnik / CC
Consumers Energy to perform overnight work next weekend in a portion of Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy is planning upgrades that will interrupt electricity to about 2,000 homes and businesses next weekend in Kalamazoo. The substation maintenance work in the...
Aug 28, 2025 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
City of Portage answers considers about garbage rates, recycling
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Portage is refuting claims made by a local woman that their embattled new single hauler garbage contract will cost her more and provide less service. Linda Owens...
Aug 28, 2025 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WMU celebrating its tenth anniversary
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The young are not the only ones who are going back to school. Classes soon begin at a very special school at Western Michigan University for local scholars at the "mature"...
Aug 28, 2025
MDOT lifting traffic restrictions for Labor Day holiday weekend travel
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Transportation is lifting lane restrictions for most of its road and bridge projects across the state to ease traffic delays for Labor Day holiday...
Aug 28, 2025 elenathewise / Depositphotos.com
Whitmer orders flags lowered to half-staff in wake of Minneapolis school shooting
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer is ordering flags across Michigan to be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of the shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Flags will ...
Aug 28, 2025 AlphaPenguin
Feeding Broncos hosts free barbecue dinner for WMU students on Labor Day
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University student organization Feeding Broncos will be hosting a free barbecue chicken and baby back rib dinner Labor Day, Monday, September 1 from 5...
Aug 28, 2025
One person dead and five injured after crash on US 131 in Allegan County's Wayland Township
WAYLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One person is dead after a two vehicle crash Wednesday morning on US 131 in Allegan County's Wayland Township. Just before 5:30 a.m. Allegan Central Dispatch received multip...
Aug 27, 2025
Charges now authorized for 2018 murder in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A longtime unsolved murder case in Portage might now finally be solved. May 23, 2018, the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office initiated an investigation into the disappearance...
Aug 26, 2025 nito103 / Depositphotos.com
After cold case was reopened, suspect arrested in 2023 Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man has been arrested in Florida after detectives on a cold case team with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety identified him as the suspect in a September 2023 mu...
Aug 25, 2025
