Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Grand Hotel sold out for Mackinac Leadership Conference next month
MACKINAC ISLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Grand Hotel is sold out for the Michigan Republican Party's Mackinac Leadership Conference in September. The event will be September 19th through the 21st and wi...
Aug 26, 2025 The Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan (courtesy Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce)
Governor Whitmer appeals FEMA denial of northern Michigan relief money
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer is appealing the denial of disaster relief funds for northern Michigan by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Whitmer says President Trump aut...
Aug 26, 2025
University of Michigan Health ends gender-affirming care for minors
ANN ARBOR, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - University of Michigan Health will no longer provide medically necessary gender affirming healthcare for minors after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Just...
Aug 26, 2025 University of Michigan logo
AUDIO: Day one of weapon detection system at KPS goes smoothly
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools have opened for the academic year with weapon detection systems in place at all of its middle and high schools. Superintendent Darrin Slade pushed...
Aug 26, 2025 Kalamazoo Central High School - Google Street View
Pay might rise for Portage City Council
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage City Council could get a raise. The Local Officers Compensation Commission is recommending a 9.4% increase for council members and a 13.6% increase for the mayor...
Aug 26, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
After cold case was reopened, suspect arrested in 2023 Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man has been arrested in Florida after detectives on a cold case team with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety identified him as the suspect in a September 2023 mu...
Aug 25, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools to offer Gold Card passes to resident senior citizens
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One of the changes this year at Kalamazoo Public Schools is for seniors, and we don't mean 12th graders. Beginning this fall, elderly residents will get a discount on admi...
Aug 25, 2025
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office seizes firearm, suspected narcotics in Newton Township raid
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at a home in the 10000 block of 8 Mile Road in Newton Township on Sunday. The narcotics-related search ...
Aug 25, 2025 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Western Michigan University unveils expanded pedestrian walkway
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University has unveiled an expanded pedestrian walkway on campus before classes begin this week. The $5.6 million project turned a former parking lot into...
Aug 25, 2025 Western Michigan University (photo by John McNeil)
Remember, be safe around school buses
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Students are back to school beginning today, so it's important that drivers remember what they have been taught about driving at this time of the year. Keep an eye out in ...
Aug 25, 2025 Bill McChesney / CC
