Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Borgess makes first dissolvable stent installation
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Borgess Medical Center says it was the first facility in the state of Michigan to successfully install a dissolvable heart stent into one of its patients. The implant was a...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
Dunn looking forward to final year at WMU
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Dr. John Dunn says he looks forward to helping trustees select his successor as president of Western Michigan University. “I intend to make this a very active and ful...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
CoreLogic: Kalamazoo home prices up again
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Home prices in Kalamazoo-Portage increased 5.7 percent in June, compared to figures from last year. Financial information firm CoreLogic is also predicting home prices to j...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
Economist says Foundation for Excellence has promise
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — An economist for the Upjohn Institute says he sees mostly good things coming out of a city plan to solicit donations to finance Kalamazoo. Economist Jim Robey said anything...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
Dr. John Dunn says he retires next year
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Western Michigan University President John Dunn has given his one-year's notice, informing trustees and the campus community that he plans to retire at the end of the next ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
Commissioners hear about "the gesture"
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The picture of Kalamazoo Public Safety Officer Timothy Millard using a hand gesture that looks like a gun on North Douglas Avenue created a stir at this week’s Kalama...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
UPDATE: One teen dead, another hurt after wreck
UPDATE 8/2 at 11:21 a.m.: Conner Blinn, the 17-year-old passenger from Kalamazoo, has died. The driver, 17-year-old Jacob Lyons, is recovering from non-life threatening inquiries at Borgess Medical Ce...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
Courser-Gamrat whistleblower lawsuit back on rails
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — A federal judge has dismissed an attempt by the Michigan House of Representatives to squelch whistle-blower lawsuits filed by two aides for former representatives Cindy Gamra...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
National Night Out events are Tuesday
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — They’ve been holding National Night Out events for decades across the country, but it may mean more this year because of all the violence and turmoil that has been ca...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2016
Driver crashes into room at Red Roof Inn
OSHTEMO (WKZO-AM) –The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department is looking for the hit-and-run driver who crashed an SUV into a room at the Red Roof Inn in Oshtemo, and then fled on foot with...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 01, 2016




