Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
KDPS arrests wanted juvenile, recovers stolen guns at Fox Ridge Apartments
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says a 16-year-old male is in custody and multiple stolen firearms were recovered during an investigation at an apartment in the ...
Sep 24, 2025 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
God's Kitchen of Michigan launches 2025 Holiday Fundraiser
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - God's Kitchen of Michigan is starting its 2025 Holiday Fundraiser with a goal to raise $10,000 to bring Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to needy families and people in ...
Sep 24, 2025
Comstock Township deputy fire chief pleads in drunk driving case
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Comstock Township Deputy Fire Chief Michael Dyer has pled no contest to one charge of operating while intoxicated for hitting and injuring an 11-year-old girl arou...
Sep 24, 2025
Bird flu confirmed in Allegan County backyard flock
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Bird flu has been confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Allegan County. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is extremely contagious and circulates when birds are mig...
Sep 24, 2025 dizanna / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: Portage weighing helping city employees with down payments for homes
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is considering a program to help its employees with down payment assistance for homes because some of them can no longer afford to live in the city. It's...
Sep 24, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Kalamazoo could face ice shortage soon
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo could be facing an ice shortage in a few years. Not the kind you drop in your drinks, but the kind you skate on. Portage city councilmember Nicole Miller brought u...
Sep 24, 2025 K Wings fall to Toledo in historic Rainbow Ice game (photo by Jim McKinney)
Court documents: Man told juvenile relative to start Otsego fire
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Court documents say 37-year-old Michael Kilbourn of Otsego told a juvenile to set a play structure on fire in Otsego just after midnight on September 2nd. Kilbourn was arrai...
Sep 24, 2025
GRPD release footage of 2023 murder suspect
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Grand Rapids police are hoping someone recognizes a man who is a suspect in a 2023 murder near Metro Grand Rapids club on South Division Avenue between Rose and Stewart...
Sep 23, 2025
Governor Whitmer, Speaker Hall believe budget deal still possible
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One week from today is the deadline for state lawmakers to get a budget for the next fiscal year passed and on the desk of Governor Gretchen Whitmer or state government shut...
Sep 23, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
MHSAA releases statement on Kalamazoo Central - Lakeshore JV football game
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan High School Athletic Association has released a statement about the junior varsity football game Thursday between Kalamazoo Central High School and Lakeshore ...
Sep 23, 2025
