Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
The politics of hate surfaces here
PORTAGE (WKZO AM/FM) — A website that carried the headline, “Sen. Margaret O’Brien wants Kzoo to be the next Charlottesville,” has been taken down at the request of several Dem...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
Sheriff to unveil new alert system
KALMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — There will soon be a new alert system in Kalamazoo for all the things that can go wrong that aren’t already covered by their own alert systems. There is an amber al...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
Red Cross stepping up Harvey mobiliztion
CORPUS CHRISTI (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo now has four Red Cross Volunteers working in Texas to help shelter refugees from Hurricane Harvey, and 20 more from all over the state are on their way to...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
Red Cross prepping for Harvey
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) — Red Cross officials in Michigan are gearing up, just in case they are dispatched to Texas to help with recovery operations from Hurricane Harvey. Forecasters say it could ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Governor says Universities not ready for future
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Rick Snyder is challenging Universities to prepare for decades of social transition as fewer young people will be coming up and the work force will go through a...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Small beginnings, but big hopes
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — It was an odd little meeting. So far, there are only two members of the Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence Board, Mayor Bobby Hopewell and City Manager Jim Ritsema, cho...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
"Hear Us on Hunger" set for next week
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes will host an event at their facility on Portage Street Tuesday through Thursday aimed at getting residents to contact members of Congress abo...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Eric's Army invades the west side
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Eric's Army was deployed Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Douglas and West Main, once again demonstrating to get officials to bring charges in the death of Erik...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Suspect in Sunday night stabbing arraigned
VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO-AM/FM) — A Missouri man has been charged with four felony assault counts and is being held Friday morning on $1 million bond after sheriff’s deputies say he stabbed ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Street confrontation results in not-guilty verdict
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — It’s an instance where body cameras on Kalamazoo Public Safety officers played a role, giving the department and the judge a video replay of exactly what happened ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017




