Category Archives: Battle Creek News

Battle Creek police seek information after overnight shooting
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Battle Creek Police Department is investigating a shooting incident that occurred shortly after midnight Tuesday in the 100 block of Arbor Point Drive. Officers res...
Ken Delaney May 27, 2025

18-year-old accused of shooting to death security guard at Kalamazoo nightclub bound over for trial
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An 18-year-old from Battle Creek has been bound over to Kalamazoo County Circuit Court to face trial in the April 12 shooting death of security guard Montine Wiley at a pa...
Ken Delaney May 25, 2025 L-R: Damonte Christopher Jenkins-Gooden and Kaiden Tanner Cole (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)

Aggressive dog incident in Pennfield Township results in use of force
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WTVB)- At approximately 5:11 p.m. on Friday, May 23, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) responded to a report of aggressive dogs in the 8000 block of Swift Road in Pennfiel...
Brett Briscoe May 24, 2025

Calhoun County Prosecutor's Office displays survivor artwork in support of sexual assault awareness
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Calhoun County Prosecutor's Office is displaying what they are calling a "powerful piece of artwork" in the Victims' Unit. The artwork was created by sexual assault...
Michael Arney May 20, 2025

I-69 traffic stop in Branch County yields enough drugs "to kill approximately one million people"
COLDWATER TOWNSHIP, MI - Michigan State Police say a driver they stopped for speeding on I-69 on Branch County Saturday had over two kilograms of heroin/fentanyl in her vehicle, with a street value of...
Ken Delaney May 19, 2025 VadimVasenin / Depositphotos.com

After several police chases over five days, suspect now lodged in Branch County Jail
BRONSON, MI (WTVB) - A wanted felon has been apprehended following multiple attempts to evade law enforcement over several days throughout Branch County. Last Wednesday deputies with the Branch County...
Ken Delaney May 19, 2025 zeferli@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com

Kalamazoo woman jailed after accident that killed a bicyclist in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 70-year-old Battle Creek man was killed in a vehicle-bicycle accident in the Urbandale neighborhood, late Sunday. Battle Creek Police responded to tye accident in the...
Ken Delaney May 19, 2025 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)

Consumers Energy says 90% of customers affected by storms have power back
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -As of Sunday evening, Consumers Energy crews have restored over 90% of the nearly 287,000 customers affected by the string of tornadoes, thunderstorms and hail that swept t...
Ken Delaney May 18, 2025

Almost 250 Ascension Borgess support staff being laid off prior to hospital sale
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - 244 contract employees who work at Ascension Borgess hospitals will be laid off in advance of the hospital sales to an Indiana-based health care system. The employees work...
Ken Delaney May 18, 2025 Photo courtesy Ascension Borgess Hospital.

Cable and internet services down also due to storm damage
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials with Spectrum, which provides cable and internet service to thousands of homes in southwest Michigan say the severe thunderstorms, high winds, and tornadoes that...
Ken Delaney May 18, 2025




