Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Environmentalists call on Upton to save EPA
ST. JOSEPH (WKZO AM/FM) — A Coalition of area environmental groups is calling on Congressman Fred Upton to stand up for Mother Nature and oppose attempts by the Trump Administration to eviscerat...
Jul 20, 2017
South Haven rededicates renovated lighthouse
SOUTH HAVEN (WKZO-AM/FM) — The restoration of the iconic lighthouse on the pier at South Beach in South Haven has been a labor of love that culminated last night when the community rededicated t...
Jul 20, 2017
Invasive but tasty species invades local waterway
VICKSBURG (WKZO-AM/FM) — The red swamp crayfish is a prohibited invasive species that are unlawful to possess, import, sell or introduce in Michigan as a live organism. In Louisiana, they are di...
Jul 20, 2017
Kalamazoo Public Schools to revise student code of conduct
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Taking a real gun to a public school in Kalamazoo will still result in automatic and permanent expulsion, but major revisions to the student code of conduct scheduled fo...
Jul 20, 2017
Attorney general orders fitness chain to cease and desist
UNDATED (WKZO-AM/FM) — Attorney General Bill Schuette has slapped a cease and desist order on a chain of west Michigan-based gyms which they claim have been intimidating former clients into maki...
Jul 19, 2017
Teenager drowns in St. Joseph County
THREE RIVERS (WKZO-AM/FM) — One teenager in a group of young fishermen who decided to put down their poles and beat the heat by swimming across the St. Joseph River didn’t make it out aliv...
Jul 19, 2017
Missing Galesburg man found near Detroit
GALESBURG (WKZO-AM/FM) — There is a happy ending to a story about a man who had been missing for days, and family members were getting to be very concerned about. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's ...
Jul 19, 2017
Local law enforcement to undergo elder abuse training
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Police and Sheriff’s deputies in the Kalamazoo area are slated to undergo training to better identify elder abuse. It wasn’t a part of Kalamazoo County Sheri...
Jul 19, 2017
NAACP: Arrested man was grabbed by neck
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — The local NAACP chapter is asking Kalamazoo Public Safety to discipline an officer who allegedly grabbed a 20-year-old man by the neck during an arrest last week. Both s...
Jul 19, 2017
Police: Person of interest in disappearance failed sobriety test
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM/FM) — Just seven days after Christopher Lockhart was charged with the malicious destruction of property for allegedly sabotaging a neighbor’s cable, internet and air condi...
Jul 19, 2017
