Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The treasurer of Kalamazoo County says she’s running for re-election this November. Mary Balkema says she’s done well since taking the job in 2007. “I hav...

BRONSON (WKZO-AM) — Police are looking for the thief who held up the Marathon gas station on West Chicago Street in Bronson at gunpoint. Investigators say the 5-foot-8 man took off on foot after...

LANSING (WKZO-AM) The Michigan State Senate has approved two bills that would decriminalize a person's first arrest for being a minor in possession of alcohol, making it a civil infraction instead of ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO-AM) — Over 100 Environmental and anti-nuclear power groups in the Great Lakes states and Canada are asking for testing to see just how much radiation is loose in the region...

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Abigail Kopf and Tiana Carruthers, the two survivors of the Feb. 20 shootings in Kalamazoo that left six dead, both continue to make progress toward recovery, and their ...

LANSING (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo County has developed policies on child restraints and seclusion in schools that Sen. Margaret O'Brien, R-Portage, says should be adopted statewide. The policy was d...

KALMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Fortune Magazine has released its latest list of the “Best Places to Work” in the United States, and four of the top 40 firms are here in Michigan. The Kalamazoo...

HOWELL (WKZO-AM) — A South Haven mother who had her two children in her car when she was arrested near Howell with a blood-alcohol level four-and-a-half times over the legal limit has been sente...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A judge has ordered a competency evaluation for the man accused of killing six people and wounding two others in three separate shootings in the Kalamazoo area on Feb. 20. ...

LANSING (WKZO-AM) — The Michigan Department of Public Health is warning women to follow the instructions on tampon packages after an increase in toxic shock syndrome cases in west Michigan. Spok...