Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Senator Albert announces reelection bid
LOWELL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Senator Thomas Albert, whose 18th District includes all of Barry County and portions of Allegan, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Kent and Ionia counties, has announced his reelecti...
Feb 17, 2026
Michigan's average gas price up 15-cents in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - We are just a month and a half into 2026, and Triple-A Michigan says gas prices have hit a high of $3.03 on February 12th. The average price has come down a little bit from...
Feb 16, 2026
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office investigating shots fires incident from Saturday evening
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shots fired incident that occurred in the City of Springfield on Saturday night. Deputies were dispatched to the int...
Feb 16, 2026 Screenshot
One dead after crash on West Main late Saturday
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says speed appears to be a factor in fatal crash late Saturday night in Ostemo Township. Around 11:40 p.m. Kalamazoo Consolida...
Feb 15, 2026 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
No injuries in early Saturday blaze in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM] - There were no injuries in an early Saturday blaze in a Portage trailer park. At approximately 3:45 a.m. the Portage Fire Division responded to a reported structure fire at 4...
Feb 14, 2026 (courtesy Portage Department of Public Safety)
Sextortion investigation by Calhoun County Sheriff's Office leads to North Carolina man's arrest
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A North Carolina man is in police custody and facing over 25 felony sex crime charges after a sextortion investigation began with the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office. T...
Feb 13, 2026 Calhoun County Sheriff's Office cruisers. (Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office).
Bronson man accused of threatening phone call to state Capitol
BRONSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 50-year-old Bronson man accused of making a call to the state Capitol threatening Republicans was back in court yesterday. Gabriel Hetrick is charged with one count of mak...
Feb 13, 2026
Arrest made in 2023 Kalamazoo double homicide
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A suspect is in custody in the murder of a Kalamazoo couple in 2023. Officers with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety arrested 44-year-old Rajai Keyontae Brown Wedn...
Feb 12, 2026 Rajai Keyontae Brown (courtesy KDPS)
Kalamazoo woman charged in connection with homicide of Fort Wayne teen
FORT WAYNE,IN (WKZO AM/FM) - A 29-year-old Kristina Burch of Kalamazoo was arrested and charged this week in connection with the January 28 shooting death of 19-year-old Damion Jacobs in Fort Wayne, I...
Feb 11, 2026
Governor Whitmer signs bills banning cell phones in K-12 classrooms
DELTA TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Cell phones will be banned in K-12 classrooms throughout Michigan. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed two bipartisan bills Tuesday at Waverly High School near Lansing, ...
Feb 11, 2026 Governor Gretchen Whitmer announcing her Lowering MI Costs Plan in Lansing, MI Feb 6, 2022 (courtesy Office of Governor)
