Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Fire supression system limits damage from blaze at Portage Central High School
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A blaze in the woodshop at Portage Central High School was contained by a fire supression system, preventing further damage Saturday night. Around 10:40 p.m., firefighters w...
Apr 06, 2025 Portage Central High School (courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
No injuries in armed robbery in Galesburg
GALESBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says no one was injured as a man was robbed at knifepoint in the Village of Galesburg late Thursday morning. Just before noon deputie...
Apr 03, 2025 Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office SUV cruiser and K9 unit (Photo by John McNeil)
Beacon Health System to acquire Ascension Healthcare System in southwest Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four Ascension Borgess hopsitals in southwest Michigan are being sold. Non-profit Beacon Health System, with current facilities in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, ...
Apr 03, 2025
Consumer Energy rate increases take effect Friday, with a second increase possible this summer
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - Just days before Consumers Energy customers will see an increase in their monthly electric bills, the utility company is preparing to ask the Michigan Public Service Commission (M...
Apr 02, 2025
Protest against President Trump and Elon Musk planned for Saturday in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A group called Indivisible of Greater Kalamazoo says it will join activists across the country for a protest in Portage this Saturday. They are asking people to gather on So...
Apr 02, 2025 (courtesy Indivisible of Greater Kalamazoo)
AUDIO: Three children killed as tree falls on mini-van were from Branch County
CLIMAX TOWNSHIOP, MI (WTVB) - Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller now says the three people who died Sunday afternoon when a tree fell on their vehicle in Climax Township were children from Branch...
Apr 01, 2025 Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller at a press conference March 31, 2025
AUDIO: US Army sergeant from Springfield missing in Lithuania
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A soldier from Springfield in west Michigan remains missing after three others were found dead in Lithuania when they went to retrieve a tactical vehicle that broke down...
Apr 01, 2025 AlphaPenguin
M-96, I-69 work starts this week in Marshall
MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Transportation is starting work this week on the Marshall Modernization Project in support of the Marshall Area Jobs, Opportunity and Recreation ...
Mar 31, 2025 (courtesy Michigan Department of Transportation)
AUDIO: VA Secretary Doug Collins tours Battle Creek VA Medical Center
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins spent part of his Monday visiting and touring the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. Collins was asked about job cuts at the VA, an...
Mar 31, 2025
UPDATE: Two-year-old, four-year-old, and 11-year-old killed as tree falls on vehicle in Kalamazoo County
CLIMAX TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office Monday morning said the fatal victims whose vehicle was struck by a tree in Climax Township during a thunderstorm Sunday were a...
Mar 31, 2025 philberrry@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
