Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
House Speaker Hall, Senate Majority Leader Brinks to meet on budget
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks of Grand Rapids and House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland are scheduled to meet today to discuss the Fiscal Year 2026 state budge...
Jun 18, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Consumers Energy pipeline replacement project continues in Kalamazoo County
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy says it has reached the halfway mark of a 12-mile project to replace and upgrade underground pipelines that serve over 2,000 homes and businesses in Kalam...
Jun 18, 2025 Courtesy Consumer's Energy Facebook page
Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation, Major League Baseball holding "PLAY BALL" event Wednesday at Kalamazoo Central High School
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Major League Baseball and Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation will hold an opportunity for nearly 150 Kalamazoo-area kids to have a "PLAY BALL" event at Kalamazoo Central High...
Jun 17, 2025
Indiana woman hospitalized after crash in Cass County
PENN TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 35-year-old woman from Goshen, Indiana is hospitalized at Elkhart General Hospital after she was in a crash around 4:30 Tuesday morning in Cass County. The sheriff's...
Jun 17, 2025 Cass County Sheriff's Office sign. (Photo by John McNeil)
Governor Whitmer on economic development trip to Australia
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer is in Australia on an economic development trip for the next week. Her office announced the trip yesterday, and she will meet with government leade...
Jun 17, 2025
"Jack Snyder Way" intersection request before Battle Creek city commission tonight
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A request will be before the Battle Creek city commission this evening to name the intersection of Battle Creek Avenue and Capital Avenue SW "Jack Snyder Way." Snyder w...
Jun 17, 2025 Photo take from the family's GoFundMe page.
South Haven approves $45,000 contract for lifeguard program work
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The South Haven city council has approved a $45,000 contract with Double Haul Solutions to develop a lifeguard program for the city's beaches. Council members were told ...
Jun 17, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo to run utilities to new arena at same time work being done on Westnedge Avenue
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners have now approved plans to run all their utilities into the new event center site at the same time that the private developers are doing their...
Jun 17, 2025
AUDIO: Executive search firms interviewed by Kalamazoo city commission in city manager search
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners have interviewed three executive search firms interested in doing their city manager search, but have delayed picking the winner a week, to gi...
Jun 17, 2025
Community Homeworks in Kalamazoo introduces new countywide Tool Library
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In an effort to provide Kalamazoo County residents with affordable access to tools for home maintenance and improvement, Community Homeworks will open a Tool Library later...
Jun 17, 2025 (courtesy Community Homeworks)
