Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
KDPS: Man, woman spotted parking stolen BMW
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A man and a woman are jailed after Kalamazoo Public Safety says both were seen downtown parking a BMW that was taken during a home invasion. The 43-year-olds were arrested ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 05, 2017
County offering free home radon test kits
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services says it’s making available to homeowners free short-term radon testing kits from now until February. The naturally-occu...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Search group lists ideal WMU president qualities
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A group at Western Michigan University has released a 16-point list of qualities it wants to see out of the school’s ninth president. The presidential search advisory...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
FireKeepers alters its deal with the State
PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) –Some of the money that the FireKeepers Casino in Calhoun County pays to the state through its tribal gaming compact will be repurposed for a use some may find contr...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Gretchen Whitmer files for Governor's race
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — The gubernatorial election is still nearly two years away but we already have our first official candidate. Mid-Michigan Democrat and former State Senator Gretchen Whitmer is...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Ford cancels plans for Mexican plant
DEARBORN (WKZO-AM) –Ford is scrapping plans to build a $1.6-billion factory in Mexico and will instead pour 700-million-dollars into its Flat Rock, Michigan plant. CEO Mark Fields says the move ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Snow and cold return
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO-AM) — It looks like this relatively mild stretch of weather which lasted through the holidays is over and we will be in for a nasty patch of cold and snow for the rest of the ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Kalamazoo County Board has new Chairman
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Commissioner Stephanie Moore, a Democrat, said “it’s never wrong to do the right thing,” using an unattributed Mark Twain quote in a statement explaining ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Mom partied as baby died
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A Kalamazoo woman who abandoned her infant daughter for 13-hours while she partied has been sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter. 23-year-old Tekia Wright initi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 04, 2017
Kalamazoo home prices up 7.1 percent
UNDATED (WKZO-AM) — Home prices in the Kalamazoo-Portage area jumped 7.1 percent in November, outpacing the statewide average of 6.2 percent. That’s compared to figures from the same time ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 03, 2017




