Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As we first reported two weeks ago, the Kalamazoo community is getting an early start on planning emergency shelters for the homeless this winter. City Manager Jim Ritsema...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department is confirming a resident in the county has West Nile virus. It is the first human case this year in Kalamazoo Cou...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The vice mayor says Kalamazoo should call itself "Education City." Jeanne Hess told us earlier this year that she had been thinking and talking about it for a while. She s...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Air Zoo project called Making Space in Michigan now has the green light, thanks to an $819,200 grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity's 20...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners may reallocate two leftover pots of money to prepare for future weather emergencies Tuesday evening. As we reported last week, they plan to ...

PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Office Depot employee in Portage is out of a job after she refused to print posters for a customer for a vigil for Charlie Kirk. She called the posters "propaganda" Frida...

DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The average gas price in Michigan is down 13-cents a gallon in the past week. Triple-A Michigan says the statewide average is now $3.05, down 12-cents in the past month and...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County was scheduled to release their proposed 2026 budget this week. When the board meets tomorrow, members will set the date for the annual public hearing on t...

ANTWERP TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan State Police say one driver is dead and another injured in a head-on crash Saturday afternoon in Antwerp Township in Van Buren County. The crash happened o...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is investigating a hit-and-run that happened Sunday morning and caused a power outage. The power was out in the area of East Stockbridge Avenue and...