Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Annual Holiday blood drive a success
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo Chapter of the Red Cross held their annual Holiday Blood Drive Saturday at the Radisson downtown. This year it was held in memory of former Public Safety Sgt....
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 25, 2016
White Christmas arrives despite the weather
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — It will be a white Christmas, despite warmer than normal temperatures in Southwest Michigan. Its nothing that Rudolph couldn’t handle. There are blizzards to the west...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 25, 2016
Shooting leads to gun seizure in Battle Creek
CALHOUN COUNTY (WKZO-AM) — A disagreement in Athens Township has resulted in an arrest for a shooting and the seizure of drugs and guns at an apartment in Battle Creek. Calhoun County Deputies s...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 24, 2016
Fire damages home in Portage
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — A Portage Family is having a bleaker Christmas after their home at 119 Barbery Avenue caught fire just before 8 p.m.Friday. Arriving firefighters found smoke and fire coming ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 24, 2016
Kalamazoo and the Christmas spirit
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Ministry with Community will be hosting the homeless Christmas morning, handing out underware and sox, gloves and scarves and other presents to help the homeless cope with ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 24, 2016
Two local men spending Christmas behind bars
KALAMAZOO/ BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A suspected drug dealer will be having a lousy Christmas, spending it in the Kalamazoo County Jail after a fender bender turned into perhaps the most expensiv...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 24, 2016
Salvation Army off Red Kettle pace
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo chapter of the Salvation Army says bell-ringers have raised roughly 70 percent of the agency’s $160,000 Red Kettle Campaign goal for 2016. That’s ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 23, 2016
Hunter's issues signed by the Governor
LANSING (WKZO-AM) –Two years after Michigan voters rejected the idea of a wolf hunt in Michigan, the Governor has signed a bill permitting that very activity. The signing comes just a month afte...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 23, 2016
State loosens zero-tolerance policy in schools
LANSING (WKZO-AM)– Governor Snyder has signed legislation that actually hands back some authority to local school boards. The new law will permit local trustees determine the appropriate punishm...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 23, 2016
Still no cause for deadly northside fire
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo Public Safety has verified reports that the man who died in a ferocious house fire on North Rose was 60-year-old R.C. Jones. The home he shared with his brother c...
localnews@mwcradio.com Dec 23, 2016




