Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Today is Wear Orange Day for Gun Violence Awareness Day
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Today is Gun Violence Awareness Day and local groups are asking that residents wear orange today to remember the victims of shootings. Rick Omilian with Moms Demand Change...
Jun 06, 2025 Rick Omilian, Kalamazoo Moms Demand Action lead, Kalamazoo Be SMART program lead for secure firearm storage information and gun violence survivor whose daughter was murdered in 1999, welcomes community members to Kalamazoo's Wear Orange event held at Bronson Park on Monday, June 5. (Photo by Jerry Malec)
Governor Whitmer holds roundtable talk at WMU about possible Medicaid cuts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Whitmer hosted a roundtable discussion yesterday at Western Michigan University to lay out the results of possible large funding cuts to Medicaid. The U.S. House ...
Jun 06, 2025 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at a news conference in Taiwan March 4, 2024 (courtesy Focus Taiwan)
Another repaving project begins on Westnedge Avenue Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An $860,000 project to repave Westnedge Avenue between Vine Street and Michigan Avenue in Kalamazoo will begin Monday, June 16. City officials say the project will focus o...
Jun 06, 2025 simazoran / Depositphotos.com
Consumers Energy seeking $436 million rate hike; AG Nessel opposed
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy wants to charge us more for our power. The utility was approved recently for a $154 million rate hike, and they are now asking the Michigan Public Service...
Jun 05, 2025
KVET, ATF arrest 34-year-old man on several charges
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 34-year-old man is in the Kalamazoo County Jail on several charges after he was arrested Tuesday by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team. He had a probation violation w...
Jun 05, 2025
Marshall area residents testify at House oversight committee against battery plant
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Construction on Ford Motor Company's multi-billion dollar BlueOval Battery Park in Marshall is about 60% complete, with the promise of more than 1,700 jobs. However, the pro...
Jun 05, 2025 BlueOval Battery Park Michigan under construction in Marshall, MIchigan (courtesy Ford Motor Company)
Kalamazoo area pediatrician files defamation lawsuit against Bronson Healthcare
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four months after she says she was being fired by Bronson Healthcare for speaking out against new polices for her pediatric practice, a Kalamazoo area pediatrician Dr. Jus...
Jun 04, 2025
Longjohn proposing legislation to ban "ghost guns" in Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Representative Matt Longjohn of Texas Township and two other lawmakers are proposing legislation that they say will curb the abuses of the gun industry. HB 4478 and ...
Jun 04, 2025 State Representative Matt Longjohn June 4, 2025
Tuesday night shooting in Kalamazoo under investigation
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is investigating a shooting that happened just before midnight Tuesday. They responded to a call from a hospital that a 21-year-o...
Jun 04, 2025
Ascension Borgess Hospital nurses worried about job security with new ownership
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Nurses working at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo and Ascension Borgess Allegan Hospital are concerned they won't have jobs after Beacon Health System takes over o...
Jun 04, 2025 Photo courtesy Ascension Borgess Hospital.
