Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo County board opts in to new opioid settlement deals
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board has agreed to opt-in to a couple of new opioid settlement deals that could eventually bring an additional $1.7 million to the community for drug...
Sep 03, 2025 Pictures of Money / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County commission unhappy with possible state budget cuts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners have some frank opinions about the state budget approved by the Republican-controlled state House, led by Speaker Matt Hall of Richland. The...
Sep 03, 2025 Kalamazoo County Government logo
Arson in Otsego under investigation9
OTSEGO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Otsego Fire Department and Otsego Police Department are investigating an arson that happened just after midnight Tuesday. Allegan County Dispatch received a 9-1-1 call ab...
Sep 02, 2025
St. Joseph County man claims $2 million Michigan Lottery prize
STURGIS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 66-year-old St. Joseph County man says he will retire early after winning $2 million playing the Michigan Lottery's $2,000,000 Lucky instant game. He chose to remain anony...
Sep 02, 2025
Can-Do Kalamazoo is city's newest entrepreneur hub
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Call it a dream factory on the day after Labor Day. Can-Do Kalamazoo is the city's newest place to learn how to take work skills, or just ideas, and turn them into money m...
Sep 02, 2025
High school tuberculosis infection confirmed in Coldwater
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Someone affiliated with Coldwater High School has been confirmed to be infected by tuberculosis. Officials have not said if it is a student, teacher, or a staff member, bu...
Sep 02, 2025 City of Coldwater sign (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Roughly 33,000 take part in annual Mackinac Bridge Walk
ST. IGNACE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Around 33-thousand people took part in the 67th annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk on Monday. The event has been held every year since the bridge opened in 1958, excep...
Sep 02, 2025
Michigan's average gas price at $3.30 a gallon
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gas price is at $3.30 a gallon, which is just a penny higher than last week, but 15 cents more than last year. Triple-A Michigan says the average in the ...
Sep 02, 2025
Indivisible Paw Paw holds pop-up protest on Labor Day
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Indivisible Paw Paw held a pop-up protest downtown in Paw Paw yesterday aiming to call attention to workers' rights and federal funding. It was the fifth pop-up protest held...
Sep 02, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County commission to vote on updates to bidding preference policy
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners are expected to approve updates to their bidding preference policy tonight, which allows them to not just take the lowest bid, but the best ...
Sep 02, 2025
