Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Battle Creek City Manager Rebecca Fleury announces retirement by end of '24
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Battle Creek City Manager Rebecca Fleury has announced she will retire from her position by the end of the year. Fleury formally notified Battle Creek Mayor Mark Behnke ...
Aug 07, 2024 Rebecca Fleury
Beckley Road roll over crash victim freed after being pinned in vehicle
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Rescue crews had to free an injured driver from a vehicle that rolled over Tuesday night in the 3500 block of Beckley Road in Battle Creek. The Battle Creek Fire Departm...
Aug 07, 2024 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
Roof of a manufacturing facility in Three Rivers torn off during Tuesday morning storm
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three months after a series of tornadoes swept through southwest Michigan causing massive damage in the Portage area, Kalamazoo County escaped relatively unscathed Tuesday...
Aug 06, 2024 The roof of the Three Rivers manufacturing facility was damaged in a storm August 6, 2024 (courtesy St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office)
Indiana man dies in two boat crash on Coldwater Lake
OVID TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A Grabil, Indiana man died from his injuries at a Kalamazoo hospital following a collision involving two speed boats on Coldwater Lake near Pearl Beach and the south Pearl R...
Aug 05, 2024
Woman rescued from sinking minivan in St. Joseph County lake
WHITE PIGEON TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A 37-year-old woman from Las Vegas had to be dramatically rescued Friday morning from her sinking minivan after it crashed into a lake southeast of White Pigeon...
Aug 03, 2024 Courtesy Michigan State Police
Jackknifed semi slows traffic on eastbound I-94 Friday afternoon
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Friday afternoon traffic on eastbound I-94 in Kalamazoo County was backed up for miles as a jackknifed semi-tractor trailer has partially blocked the expressway before Porta...
Aug 02, 2024 Traffic backed up on eastbound I-94 in Kalamazoo County due to a jackknifed semi Aug 2, 2024 (courtesy Michigan Department of Transportation)
Pedestrian suffers non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by Amtrak train in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An 18-year-old Kalamazoo man is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by an Amtrak train Friday morning. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Sa...
Aug 02, 2024 Richard Eriksson / CC
Group of distressed kayakers rescued from Kalamazoo River near Otsego
OTSEGO TWP., MI (WKZO/WHTC) - What was supposed to be a fun afternoon along the Kalamazoo River in southeast Allegan County Thursday for a group of kayakers turned out to be more than they bargained f...
Aug 01, 2024 lucidwaters / Depositphotos.com
Bond denied for suspect in Fox Ridge Apartments murder case
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police have made an arrest in the shooting death of a Kalamazoo man last month. Detectives from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division, ...
Aug 01, 2024 Best Law
Portage Disaster Loan Outreach Center to assist tornado victims to remain open through August 9
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Almost three months after multiple tornadoes touched down in southwest Michigan, the U.S. Small Business Administration says it will keep open its Portage Disaster Loan Outr...
Aug 01, 2024 Storm damage from a tornado near Sherwood, Michigan May 7, 2024 (photo courtesy of Raymond Wright)
