Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
WMU Board of Trustees approves new contract with AFSCME union
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees held their first meeting Wednesday with new President Russ Kavalhuna driving the agenda. It was a meeting only in the off...
Aug 13, 2025 The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees at their online meeting August 13, 2025
Charges authorized for driver involved in crash that killed a Calhoun Community High School senior
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Charges have been authorized against a driver involved in a fatal reckless driving crash last month that claimed the life of a Calhoun Community High School student and...
Aug 13, 2025
EGLE looking for next steps after EPA cancels $7 billion Solar for All grant program
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State officials are looking at their next steps after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is ending the $7-billion Solar for All grant program. Michigan wa...
Aug 13, 2025
Man enters Center for Forensic Psychiatry after being found not guilty by insanity of killing mother
VAN BUREN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 23-year-old man is now at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity for killing his mother last October 31. A jury re...
Aug 13, 2025
Amanda Zimmerlin chosen as Battle Creek city manager
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek city commissioners have named Amanda Zimmerlin as their new city manager. She has been the city manager for Clayton, Ohio from February 2020 and was the as...
Aug 13, 2025
WMU Board of Trustees to meet today to consider new AFSCME contract
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees will hold a special virtual meeting at 1:00 p.m. today to consider approving a two-year contract with WMU's chapter of th...
Aug 13, 2025 WMU logo (courtesy Western Michigan University)
AUDIO: Portage, city council have healing to do after trash hauling contract battle
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage and city council may have some healing to do, and bridges to rebuild after a raucous meeting over trash hauling in the city last month. The council decid...
Aug 13, 2025 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
KDPS identifies victim in deadly Kalamazoo crash
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The 23-year-old Kalamazoo man who died at the scene of a two-car crash around 2 a.m. on August 9 has been identified. Kalamazoo Public Safety says he was Ivan Perez, who w...
Aug 12, 2025
Nessel "deeply concerned" by MEDC conduct during probe of grant
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she was "deeply concerned" by the conduct of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation as her office investigated a $20-millio...
Aug 12, 2025 (screenshot from video released by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel May 28, 2024)
Port Huron man sentenced in 2022 Kalamazoo homicide
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Port Huron man has been sentenced to prison for killing McEhrlich Jones of Kalamazoo in 2022. 33-year-old Kareen Steele entered a no contest plea to second-degree murder...
Aug 12, 2025
