Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo County may join partnership to fund emergency shelter for homeless people
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County may join a partnership once again this year to help fund emergency shelter for the homeless this winter, following news that the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission ...
Sep 05, 2025 Kalamazoo County sign (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: KPS officials say parents need to be fully engaged
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Darrin Slade says the new school year has gotten off to a great start, and now they are encouraging parents to get fully engaged as...
Sep 05, 2025
Kalamazoo County's chief deputy treasurer watching federal jobs report
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One Kalamazoo County economist is watching to see what happens with today's federal jobs report, because local money is at stake. Kalamazoo County Chief Deputy Treasurer T...
Sep 05, 2025 EpicTop10.com / CC
Senator McCann says Amtrak track shutdown later this month "appears to be poor planning and a troubling lack of advance warning"
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Construction work along the track for the Amtrak Wolverine and Blue Water routes that pass through Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties will mean the lines will be shutdown for ...
Sep 04, 2025 Biker loads his bike onto the Amtrak train. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
City of Kalamazoo $60-million water system upgrade to begin Monday,
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A three year $60-million infrastructure project for the City of Kalamazoo's water system is scheduled to begin Monday, September 8. will soon begin a major infrastructure ...
Sep 04, 2025 Joe Shlabotnik / CC
County Road Association of Michigan releases its 2025 "don't miss" list of local roads for fall colors
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The County Road Association of Michigan has released its list of the best fall color tours in the state for 2025. Peak fall color is expected between October 6 and Novembe...
Sep 04, 2025
Battle Creek police say suspicious incident at Willard Library leads to arrest
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek police have a 67-year-old Otsego-area man in the Calhoun County Jail for trying to lure children into a vehicle outside Willard Library. They were called t...
Sep 04, 2025 (courtesy Battle Creek Police)
GVSU tightens campus security after weekend stabbing
ALLENDALE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Security is now tighter at Grand Valley State University's main campus in Allendale Township after a stabbing over the weekend near a dormitory. Residents of on-campus hou...
Sep 04, 2025 (courtesy of GVSU)
State leaders negotiate budget for an hour at Capitol
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks of Grand Rapids, House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland, and state budget director Jen Flood met for an hour yesterday at the state C...
Sep 04, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Kalamazoo city commission says city manager finalists to be at meet-and-greet October 14
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo city commission is moving forward in its search for the next city manager with the retirement of City Manager Jim Ritsema approaching this fall. The commissi...
Sep 03, 2025 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
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