Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: VA Secretary Doug Collins tours Battle Creek VA Medical Center
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins spent part of his Monday visiting and touring the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. Collins was asked about job cuts at the VA, an...
Mar 31, 2025
UPDATE: Two-year-old, four-year-old, and 11-year-old killed as tree falls on vehicle in Kalamazoo County
CLIMAX TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office Monday morning said the fatal victims whose vehicle was struck by a tree in Climax Township during a thunderstorm Sunday were a...
Mar 31, 2025 philberrry@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to discuss major housing development in Pavilion Township
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Plans for a major housing development in Pavilion Township will be up for public discussion tomorrow night. Pavilion developers are asking to use some tax dollars to finan...
Mar 31, 2025
Kalamazoo city commission to have special meeting tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A special meeting of the Kalamazoo city commission will be held tonight to come to the rescue of a housing project for seniors on the Northside. It can take months and yea...
Mar 31, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Strike averted at Western Michigan University's Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A strike set to begin today has been averted at Western Michigan University's Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, known as WMed. Its resident physicians reached a tentati...
Mar 31, 2025 (courtesy Western Michigan University)
Calhoun County prisoner's death under investigation
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The death of a 43-year-old man in the Calhoun County Jail is being investigated by Michigan State Police. He had been arrested for indecent exposure around 1:30 a.m. Su...
Mar 31, 2025 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Three killed in Kalamazoo County storm as tree hits vehicle
CLIMAX TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - At the height of Sunday's thunderstorms in Kalamazoo County, three people were killed and another three were injured after their vehicle was struck by falling tree. ...
Mar 30, 2025 aijohn784 / Depositphotos.com
Thousands without power as thunderstorms hit southwest Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Strong thunderstorms that roared through southwest Michigan late Sunday afternoon knocked out power to thousands in the region. As of 7:30 p.m. Sunday there were 7,867 Con...
Mar 30, 2025
Branch County man faces CSC charges for reported ongoing sexual relationship with the minor
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A night custodian with the Union City Community Schools faces multiple drug, weapons, and criminal sexual conduct charges after police searched his home north of Coldwater and s...
Mar 29, 2025 (courtesy Branch County Sheriff's Office)
Mattawan woman accused of being under the influence in accident that killed eight-year-old girl
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Friday afternoon 31-year-old Sheila Kershner of Mattawan was charged with eight criminal counts in the death of an eight-year-old Amish girl, whose buggy was rear ended Wedn...
Mar 28, 2025 Sheila Kershner appears in a Paw Paw courtroom via video linkup for her arraignment March 28, 2025 (courtesy Van Buren County District Court)
