Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
OK2SAY tips up 20% in 2024, sets record
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's confidential student safety tip line OK2SAY took in 20% more tips in 2024 than 2023. The program took over 11,000 tips last year over 25 categories. Of those, bul...
Aug 05, 2025
Tonight is National Night Out
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's the first Tuesday in August, and that means National Night Out. Several events are planned in the Kalamazoo area to get neighbors to meet neighbors, rub elbows with p...
Aug 05, 2025 Police officers engage with citizens in Kalamazoo during National Night Out 2019. (Photo by Will Kriss).
AUDIO: Anti-ICE protestors urge city of Kalamazoo to oppose Trump administration
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Demonstrators spent last evening picketing Kalamazoo City Hall, calling on the city to take a stand against Trump administration immigration policies and ICE detentions. T...
Aug 05, 2025
Woman suffers minor injuries after being shot in the head while riding in a car on Florence Street
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A passenger is a vehicle traveling through a Kalamazoo neighborhood was struck in the head by gunfire Sunday afternoon. At 5:41 p.m. officers from the Kalamazoo Department...
Aug 04, 2025 BrianAJackson / Depositphotos.com
Portage Public Schools superintendent to host meet and greet August 21
PORTAGE. MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage Public Schools superintendent Johnny Edwards will be hosting a meet-and-greet with the community later this month. People are invited to meet with him at the Portage...
Aug 04, 2025
Gas prices down 10-cents statewide in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's ten cents a gallon cheaper on average in the state to fill the gas tank from last week. Triple-A Michigan says the price is now at $3.13 a gallon statewide, down six c...
Aug 04, 2025
Three hospitalized after Allegan County crash
SALEM TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Allegan County Sheriff's Office says three people are hospitalized after a crash between a pickup truck and a sedan Saturday night in Salem Township. Deputies say...
Aug 04, 2025 Allegan County Sheriff's Patch (image courtesy Allegan Co. Sheriff's Dept.)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo PAL, Detroit Lions hold youth football camp
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's Police Athletic League and the Detroit Lions collaborated for a youth football camp for two days over the weekend. PAL director Johnnie Berry says it was the t...
Aug 04, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County looking for new site for hazardous waste collection
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County is looking for a big piece of land to expand a service that may be popular with some, but not everyone. The county's Household Hazardous Waste Center has ...
Aug 04, 2025 Kalamazoo County sign (Photo by John McNeil)
Kalamazoo city commission to vote on establishing youth sports facility authority
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners will be asked tonight to finalize action on a new authority to own and operate a $30 million youth sports facility on the west side. It's an i...
Aug 04, 2025
