Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Meijer to expand to Pennsylvania
WALKER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Walker-based grocery retailer Meijer is confirming plans to expand into Pennsylvania. The company says they have started acquiring property in the western part of the Keyston...
Oct 02, 2025
Man charged in Two Fellas Grill shooting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One man has been charged in connection with the shooting that injured four people at Kalamazoo's Two Fellas Grill on September 20. Matthew McClinton pulled a Draco rifle d...
Oct 02, 2025 New location for Two Fellas Grill at 2730 W. Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo. (Photo by Will Kriss).
Ribbon-cutting for renovated Lexington Green Park in Portage next week
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Portage will be showing off the of renovations at Lexington Green Park next week, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, October 10. City officials say the 23-ac...
Oct 02, 2025 (courtesy City of Portage)
Pfizer agrees to $70 billion investment, lower drug prices, under agreement with Trump administration
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, whose largest manufacturing site is located in Portage, has agreed to a new federal program that will allow U.S. patients to purchase their medi...
Oct 01, 2025 Pfizer logo
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra announces Jonathan Martin as interim president and CEO
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra president and CEO Jonathan Martin is set to become the interim president and CEO of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. He will take ove...
Oct 01, 2025
No state budget approved yet, but no state government shutdown
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer says state government will remain open despite lawmakers not yet approving a budget for Fiscal Year 2026, which began at midnight. House Appropriat...
Oct 01, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Swatting incident in Kalamazoo Township under investigation
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Township police are investigating a swatting call that prompted an emergency response at a home on Brook Drive off of Gull Road yesterday afternoon. The...
Oct 01, 2025 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Fire damages Fazoli's restaurant in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A fire has damaged the Fazoli's restaurant in Battle Creek. Firefighters got the flames under control in about ten minutes yesterday afternoon, but say the entrance suf...
Oct 01, 2025
Kalamazoo Public Schools holding public sessions on discipline, school security
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Discipline in Kalamazoo Public Schools recently became national news when a viral video showing a Kalamazoo Central High School junior varsity football player body slammin...
Oct 01, 2025 (Photo provided by John McNeill)
Hopkins man arrested in Allegan County animal fighting case
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 37-year-old Hopkins man has been charged on five felony counts stemming from the bust of a suspected cock fighting event this past July in Allegan County. Edin Dilson Roda...
Sep 30, 2025 Edin Dilson Rodas (courtesy Allegan County Sheriff's Office)
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