Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to vote on budget Tuesday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board will have a full agenda as they resume their annual meeting to finalize next year's budget Tuesday. They still have some decisions to make befor...
Oct 20, 2025 jittawit.21 / Depositphotos.com
Gas prices in Michigan at lowest since April 2021
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices in Michigan are down 13-cents a gallon to start the week at $2.79. Triple-A Michigan says that is the lowest price in the state since April 2021 and is down 41-c...
Oct 20, 2025
Kalamazoo City Commission to pick next city manager tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The 51st Kalamazoo City Commission will meet for the last time to do business tonight, and they have saved the biggest for last. Topping the list of agenda items is the se...
Oct 20, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall in the fall from Bronson Park. (Photo by John McNeill).
Thousands gather for No Kings rallies across the region
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Organizers say around 9,500 people ahowed up on North Drake Street Saturday for Kalamazoo's No Kings rally, one of dozen across the state. The No Kings movement's website ...
Oct 18, 2025
Cass County Sheriff's Office investigating man's suspicious death
NEWBERG TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Cass County Sheriff's Office deputies are investigating the suspicious death of a man found in the kitchen of a home in the 11000 block of Born Street in Newberg To...
Oct 17, 2025 Cass County Sheriff's Office sign. (Photo by John McNeil)
49-year-old Battle Creek man arrested for Wednesday morning stabbing
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police have arrested a 49-year-old Battle Creek man early Wednesday morning in connection with a stabbing near Main Street and Pittee Street in Battle Creek. They respo...
Oct 17, 2025 (courtesy Battle Creek Police)
Kalamazoo County housing millage recommendations made
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The latest housing millage recommendations have been made to get three more housing projects up and running in Kalamazoo County. County housing director Mary Balkema says ...
Oct 17, 2025 Kalamazoo County sign (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: One Kalamazoo city manager finalist drops out; last interview held
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There is news out of Kalamazoo's city manager search process as the city commission completed its fourth and final interview by Zoom this morning. Mayor Dave Anderson anno...
Oct 17, 2025
Kalamazoo Public Schools to visit homes of truant students this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - You may get a knock on your door this weekend, and it won't be trick-or-treaters. Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Darrin Slade says he and a group of staff volunte...
Oct 17, 2025
MSU study finds 1-in-6 pregnant woman used cannabis
EAST LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One in six women in Michigan admit they used cannabis while they were pregnant. Michigan State University researchers say there are areas of the state where 25-percent ...
Oct 17, 2025 Elsa Olofsson / CC
