Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Battle Creek to renovate, build new fire stations
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Battle Creek fire stations will be renovated, another will be expanded, and three new ones will be built. That follows a unanimous vote last night by the Battle Cre...
Aug 06, 2025 (Photo provided by the Battle Creek Fire Department)
Kalamazoo County commission to reclaim $400,000 in COVID-19 pandemic money
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The COVID-19 pandemic is now a memory, but local governments are still figuring out ways to spend some of the federal dollars granted locally for recovery. Kalamazoo Count...
Aug 06, 2025
AUDIO: Public phase open in Kalamazoo city manager search
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's search for a new city manager has just entered its first public phase. While elected commissioners make big decisions and set the direction for the city, it's ...
Aug 06, 2025 City of Kalamazoo logo
Cooper Township felonious assault under investigation
COOPER TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 34-year-old woman is being sought by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office for allegedly cutting her boyfriend with a knife just before 1 a.m. Tuesday in Cooper To...
Aug 05, 2025 Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office (Photo by John McNeil)
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office investigating Comstock Township robbery
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a robbery suspect. A woman called them just before 5:30 a.m. Tuesday to report being robbed of her purse and ...
Aug 05, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: City of Kalamazoo using helicopter, antenna to map aquifers for water system
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo has been using a hexagonal antenna attached to a helicopter to map out aquifers under the ground for the city's water system. Water program manager J...
Aug 05, 2025 Top down close up color photo of a water supply manhole cover in a paved street with green grass around the perimeter
OK2SAY tips up 20% in 2024, sets record
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's confidential student safety tip line OK2SAY took in 20% more tips in 2024 than 2023. The program took over 11,000 tips last year over 25 categories. Of those, bul...
Aug 05, 2025
Tonight is National Night Out
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's the first Tuesday in August, and that means National Night Out. Several events are planned in the Kalamazoo area to get neighbors to meet neighbors, rub elbows with p...
Aug 05, 2025 Police officers engage with citizens in Kalamazoo during National Night Out 2019. (Photo by Will Kriss).
AUDIO: Anti-ICE protestors urge city of Kalamazoo to oppose Trump administration
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Demonstrators spent last evening picketing Kalamazoo City Hall, calling on the city to take a stand against Trump administration immigration policies and ICE detentions. T...
Aug 05, 2025
Woman suffers minor injuries after being shot in the head while riding in a car on Florence Street
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A passenger is a vehicle traveling through a Kalamazoo neighborhood was struck in the head by gunfire Sunday afternoon. At 5:41 p.m. officers from the Kalamazoo Department...
Aug 04, 2025 BrianAJackson / Depositphotos.com
