Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Portage to hold Portage Road 360 Community Celebration on Thursday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage will hold a Portage Road 360 Community Celebration this Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Portage Zhang Senior Center at 203 East Centre Avenue. It wil...
Sep 22, 2025
Senator Nesbitt wins Michigan Republican Conference straw poll for governor
MACKINAC ISLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt is the winner of the Michigan Republican Mackinac Island Leadership Conference straw poll in the governor's race. The Va...
Sep 22, 2025 State Senator Aric Nesbitt filing for paperwork for the 20th Senate District (submitted photo)
Comstock Public Schools to use grant for literacy programming
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Comstock Public Schools will use a $21,000 grant from the state to renew a pilot program using artificial intelligence to boost literacy. Superintendent Jeffrey Th...
Sep 22, 2025 (courtesy Comstock Public Schools)
Four shot near Western Michigan University
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is investigating a shooting that sent four people to the hospital around 3:15 Saturday morning near Western Michigan University's campus. The shots...
Sep 22, 2025 New location for Two Fellas Grill at 2730 W. Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo. (Photo by Will Kriss).
Portage city council to vote Tuesday on land, equipment purchases for new Farmer's Market
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is getting ready to start work on the new Farmer's Market and need to make a land purchase immediately. A city memo states they need to buy three-hundred...
Sep 22, 2025 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
Kalamazoo man sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A federal judge has sentenced a 46-year-old Kalamazoo man to 30 years in prison for possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine. Keith Scott was sentenced last week ...
Sep 22, 2025 londondeposit / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Safety ends participation in national camera system
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - When faced with complaints about officers wearing masks, Kalamazoo Public Safety immediately changed their policy and ended the practice this summer. New complains about r...
Sep 22, 2025 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Battle Creek man charged in connection to assault on repo agent
PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) - A Battle Creek man is in custody for allegedly trapping a repo agent between two vehicles. The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to the 2100 blo...
Sep 19, 2025
Republican state representative says her committee stripped of bills in retaliation
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Republican state Representative Jaime Greene of Richmond says she is being punished by House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland for taking a bipartisan diplomatic trip to Israel....
Sep 19, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
South Haven gets governmental immunity in 2020 drowning lawsuit
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of South Haven has received governmental immunity from an appeals court in a wrongful death lawsuit from a 2020 drowning. The mother of Brandon Chambers, who di...
Sep 19, 2025 (Photo courtesy of South Haven Area Emergency Services via Facebook)
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