Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Portage City Council presented with next budget
PORTAGE (WKZO AM/FM) — Portage Homeowners may be getting a small reduction in their tax rate next year if the City Manager is correct about a boost in state funding for road projects coming from...
Apr 12, 2017
Changes big and small coming downtown
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Downtown Kalamazoo may be about to experience the biggest building boom its seen in decades, as construction appears to be imminent at the corner of Rose and Michigan. T...
Apr 12, 2017
Fire damages Calhoun Area Career Center
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM/FM) — An accidental auto shop fire in a locked tool storage area is being blamed for causing around $45,000 damage to the Calhoun Area Career Center in Battle Creek. It hap...
Apr 11, 2017
Trucks collide and burst into flames
HASTINGS (WKZO AM/FM) –A Barry County man is recovering in a Kalamazoo Hospital from injuries he suffered in a fiery head on collision with a tractor-trailer rig near Hastings Monday afternoon. ...
Apr 11, 2017
Foundation for Excellence framework in place
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Mayor Bobby Hopewell is calling for patience from city commissioners and the community, as they work out how to spend ten million dollars to make Kalamazoo a better plac...
Apr 11, 2017
Stormy spring brings another tornado to the area
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO AM/FM) — The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down just to the south and east of Grand Rapids, near Alto in Kent County. The twister took down out...
Apr 11, 2017
New Western Michigan president to be revealed
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — The search committee looking for the next president of Western Michigan University has apparently wrapped up its work a little ahead of schedule, and it appears they hav...
Apr 11, 2017
UPDATE: Shooting victim's name released
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — More details have been released about Kalamazoo's latest homicide but there have been no arrests, even though there were several who reportedly witnessed the shooting th...
Apr 10, 2017
Gamrat suing House, former aides, former house speaker
LANSING (WKZO-AM/FM) — Disgraced former state representative Cindy Gamrat of Plainwell is alleging wiretapping, stalking and defamation in a lawsuit against the Michigan House, former House Spea...
Apr 10, 2017
Consumer's Energy shopping for power plant
JACKSON (WKZO-AM/FM) — The Associated Press erroneously reported over the weekend that Consumers Energy was planning to buy the Palisades Nuclear Plant and convert it to natural gas. That is not...
Apr 10, 2017
