Category Archives: Battle Creek News
WK Kellogg investment in Battle Creek to save 170 jobs, create 43 others
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - WK Kellogg Co has announced an expansion in Battle Creek that will retain 170 jobs and create another 43 high-wage jobs. The company has approximately 750 employees and ...
Dec 14, 2023 Courtesy Battle Creek Unlimited Facebook page
Soup kitchen to serve free steak and lobster tail Christmas dinners in Battle Creek and Portage next week
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - God's Kitchen of Michigan, an area private non-profit hunger relief organization, will be holding a pair of free community Christmas dinners next week. The first dinner will...
Dec 13, 2023 (courtesy God's Kitchen of Michigan)
Woman rescued from apartment fire on Sunday morning in BC
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Battle Creek Fire Department says they had to respond to an apartment fire Sunday morning on South 22nd Street where a woman was trapped inside of her apartment and ...
Dec 12, 2023 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
After high speed chase and struggle with police, three lodged in the Kalamazoo County Jail
CHARLESTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three suspects are in custody after leading police on a high speed chase in Kalamazoo County Monday morning, that also included one suspect trying to wrestle a w...
Dec 11, 2023 Jason Rojas / CC
Ground broken for new $20 million industrial building in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Ground was broken on Friday for a second Industrial Partners USA industrial speculative building on Watkins Road. Battle Creek Unlimited was among those taking part in t...
Dec 11, 2023 Courtesy Battle Creek Unlimited Facebook page
Former Battle Creek landlord sent to prison for life in 2020 murder of two tenants
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Former Battle Creek landlord Chad Allen Reed was ordered to serve the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday after he killed two tenants ...
Dec 09, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Section of Battle Creek Linear Park temporarily closed during repair work
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - - Crews for the City of Battle Creek are repairing the blue bridge along Battle Creek's Linear Park for the next week. That means there is a temporary closure of the Lin...
Dec 09, 2023
Police recover gun, fentanyl, and cocaine in Kalamazoo drug bust Friday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 41-year-old Kalamazoo man faces multiple drug charges, after police investigating drug distribution recovered multiple ounces of fentanyl and cocaine Friday The Southwes...
Dec 08, 2023 (courtesy Michigan State Police)
Calhoun deputies investigate numerous Village of Homer and Pennfield Township stolen vehicle reports
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Numerous stolen vehicle reports in the Village of Homer and in Pennfield Township within two days are being investigated by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office. Deputi...
Dec 08, 2023 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Suspect in hate speech graffiti spray painted in Kalamazoo now in custody in Arizona
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A suspected of at least three separate acts of vandalism/graffiti involving hate speech in downtown Kalamazoo last month has been arrested in Arizona. According to the Kal...
Dec 07, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
