Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
19-year-old charged with Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Nineteen-year-old Lamone Hickman Jr. is charged with open murder in the shooting death Thursday of Marktavion Perry-Bennett in Kalamazoo. Hickman was arrested in Muskegon ...
Apr 29, 2025
Michigan's gas price down 11-cents a gallon
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gasoline price is down eleven-cents a gallon to $3.04. Triple-A Michigan says that is down seven-cents from last month and down 68-cents from last year. ...
Apr 28, 2025
AUDIO: Today is Workers Memorial Day
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Today has been declared Workers Memorial Day by several local municipalities including the city and county of Kalamazoo and the city of Portage. It marks the day in 1971 w...
Apr 28, 2025 Kalamazoo County sign (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Portage city council to vote on ordinance making being bad neighbor a misdemeanor
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage city council will get their first look this week at a new ordinance that would make being a really bad neighbor a misdemeanor. For the past two meetings, Mark Mo...
Apr 28, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
One killed, three hospitalized in fatal Gobles area crash
TROWBRIDGE TWP., MI (WKZO-AM/FM) - One person died and three others were injured in a two-vehicle crash that resulted in a truck slamming into several people off the roadway between Gobles and Allegan...
Apr 27, 2025 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
Kalamazoo man killed in North Park Street shooting, suspect in custody
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Just days after city officials released data showing a decrease in violent crime, there has been another murder in Kalamazoo. Thursday at 10:47 p.m., Kalamazoo Department ...
Apr 25, 2025 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
Sinkhole shuts down Battle Creek road
BATTLE CREEK,MI (WTVB) - A portion of Riverside Drive in Battle Creek is closed until further notice due to a giant sinkhole that collapsed a section of the road north of Columbia Avenue early this mo...
Apr 25, 2025
Two arrested in Charleston Township
CHARLESTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two people are in the Kalamazoo County Jail awaiting arraignment on charges from one being stabbed and the other shot at. Sheriff's deputies responded to an addr...
Apr 25, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil).
KPS recognized for getting students ready for life after graduating
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools is being recognized for its innovative efforts to prepare students for life after graduation. It's called the Promising Progressive Career Pathway...
Apr 25, 2025
AUDIO: Governor Whitmer visits affordable housing project in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer visited the Hope Village affordable housing project in Grand Rapids yesterday. The tiny home project is scheduled to be complete by the end of...
Apr 25, 2025 Governor Gretchen Whitmer announcing her Lowering MI Costs Plan in Lansing, MI Feb 6, 2022 (courtesy Office of Governor)
