Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Suspect in custody and arraigned on multiple charges in shooting death in Kalamazoo last week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A suspect has been taken into custody and charged with murder in the shooting death of another man last week in Kalamazoo. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says 2...
Jun 02, 2025 AVFC / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission holding public hearings on housing proposals
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners will hold a couple of public hearings on rezoning to permit new housing in the community. The big project is a proposal to put 80 new units at...
Jun 02, 2025 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
Kalamazoo County might use opioid settlement money to replace federal funds
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County is considering a plan to dip into opioid settlement money to replace funding that had been approved by the federal government but was cancelled by the Tru...
Jun 02, 2025 Find Rehab Centers / CC
KDPS arrests suspect in Wednesday murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers have a suspect in custody for a murder from Wednesday. A 42-year-old man was shot in the head and abdomen around 1:30 a.m. W...
Jun 02, 2025 KDPS Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
Kalamazoo city commissioners to look at nine executive search firms for new city manager
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The search for a new Kalamazoo city manager could take a step forward tonight. City commissioners will get a look at the nine executive search firms that qualified to subm...
Jun 02, 2025
Kalamazoo city commission to look at approval of Portland loo purchase
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Long-delayed efforts to install two new public restrooms downtown could move forward tonight, if Kalamazoo city commissioners approve the purchase of a Portland loo. That'...
Jun 02, 2025 Portland Loo public bathroom installed in Downtown Kalamazoo. (Photo courtesy of the Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership).
Record number of graduates this year for Kalamazoo Public Schools
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With ceremonies held this past week for Kalamazoo Central and Loy Norrix seniors, Kalamazoo Public Schools. Superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade says the 350 graduates is a rec...
May 31, 2025 Animated Heaven
Four arrested during Cass County drug bust
VANDALIA, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four people were arrested Friday afternoon as the Cass County Drug Enforcement Team and the Cass County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant in the 17000 block of Eas...
May 31, 2025 designer491 / Depositphotos.com
Joshi named to succeed Stoddard as Parchment City Manager
PARCHMENT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -The City of Parchment has named Sarah Joshi as its new City Manager, effective June 18, 2025. Joshi's background includes roles as City Manager of Galesburg, Deputy Directo...
May 30, 2025 New Parchment City Manager Sarah Joshi (courtesy City of Parchment)
Prison time for two men involved in mass fentanyl poisoning in Kalamazoo County in 2025
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After seven people died in what investigators called "a mass poisoning event in Kalamazoo County,'' two men linked to those multiple fentanyl overdoses are heading to pris...
May 30, 2025 VadimVasenin / Depositphotos.com
