Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Final walk through Portage Central Elementary happening Wednesday evening
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The public is being invited to take a final walk through Portage Central Elementary School on Wednesday evening between 5:45 and 7:15 p.m. The building is closing and will b...
May 12, 2025 Portage Public Schools logo courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
EPA awards Calhoun County $1.5 million grant from Brownfields Assessment Program
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The federal Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1.5 million grant to Calhoun County. The Calhoun County Land Bank Authority says the money is from the EPA's ...
May 12, 2025 DonkeyHotey / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools might give discounts for seniors
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools may soon be giving a break to seniors, and we are not talking about 12th graders. Superintendent Darrin Slade said he received a message from some...
May 12, 2025
Portage city council holding final budget work session Tuesday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage city council will hold their final work session on their next budget Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. and set the rates for water and sewer bills at their evening mee...
May 12, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Woman hit by vehicle, killed in 5000 block of Gull Road
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a 55-year-old woman Saturday night. She was hit by a vehicle in the 5000 block of Gull Road in ...
May 12, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission to vote on ordinance amendment for X-Train violators
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners are expected to approve an ordinance amendment that will make it easier for public safety officers to impound cars that take the X-Train. The ...
May 12, 2025
Two injured in early morning Kalamazoo shooting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is investigating an early morning shooting Sunday that left two people injured At 1:18 a.m., officers responded to the 700 block ...
May 11, 2025 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
Pedestrian struck and killed early Sunday in Cass County
CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Cass County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a car in Lagrange Township early Sunday morning. Deputies were called to th...
May 11, 2025
MDOT to work on I-94 Business Loop in Battle Creek starting Monday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Transportation along with contractor Lakeland Asphalt Corporation will start resurfacing the I-94 Business Loop, also known as East Michigan ...
May 09, 2025
WMed to host SimWars Competition next Wednesday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine will welcome resident doctors from across the state on Wednesday for the Michigan College of Emergency Phys...
May 09, 2025 (courtesy Western Michigan University)
