Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Thursday fire at a Kalamazoo apartment complex leads to evacuations
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- An apartment fire affected several units in Kalamazoo Thursday evening and led to some evacuations. Fire officials say the blaze was contained before it spread to other p...
Mar 19, 2021 Candlewyck Apartments in Kalamazoo - Google Satellite Image
Kalamazoo Diocese parishes allowed to increase church capacity to 50 percent
KALAMAZOO, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Parishes in the Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo will be able to increase their church capacities up to 50 percent effective on Friday. Bishop Paul Bradley says all of the COV...
Mar 19, 2021
W.M.U. music students singing for charity with unique "Choir For Good" project
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Some students studying music at Western Michigan University students are raising money this month for charitable organizations through singing. An interactive project cal...
Mar 19, 2021 Choir for Good - Courtesy Western Michigan University
Family of dead Battle Creek man say he was not stabbed in self defense
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Relatives of a man who was found dead following a stabbing incident in the 300 block of Main Street early Wednesday morning say he was not killed in self defense Battle ...
Mar 19, 2021
Walmart store in Plainwell closed temporarily due to COVID-19 outbreak
PLAINWELL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Walmart store located in Plainwell is closed until Saturday morning related to a COVID-19 outbreak. The store, located on M-89 near U.S. 131, closed at 2:00 p.m. Thur...
Mar 19, 2021 Walmart in Plainwell - Google Street View
High speed rollover crash on U.S. 131 in Allegan County leaves driver dead
WAYLAND TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A deadly high-speed crash in Allegan County Wednesday night is under investigation. It happened on the U.S. 131 exit ramp at 129th Ave. in Wayland Township. at aro...
Mar 18, 2021 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
Kalamazoo area currently showing largest upward trend of COVID-19 cases in Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- For the first time in over two months, Michigan reported over 3,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, and Kalamazoo is also seeing cases on the rise in recent days. The ave...
Mar 18, 2021
BC Bombers dispute city's ban on fireworks at C.O. Brown Stadium
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Battle Creek Bombers of the Northwoods League feel the City of Battle Creek has hit a foul ball. The Bombers were recently notified that the city has banned firework...
Mar 18, 2021 Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Bombers Facebook page.
City of Portage welcomes artists to participate in 4th annual Community Art Award
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Wednesday, the City of Portage announced its 4th Annual Portage Community Art Award, held in conjunction with the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) annual West Michigan Are...
Mar 17, 2021 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
Allegan County Health Department and Gun Lake Tribe hold donation ceremony for Mobile Health Clinic
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Last October, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) donated its CARES Act dollars toward an Allegan County mobile vaccination uni...
Mar 17, 2021 Allegan County Mobile Health Unit. (Photo courtesy of the Allegan County Health Department).
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