Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

DNR cautioning people about northern Michigan ice storm damage
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is cautioning people heading to northern Michigan this weekend to be prepared for tree damage from the March ice storm. The DNR ...
Michael Arney May 23, 2025 Jon Evans / CC

Michigan House approves two bills banning transgender girls from female sports
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two controversial bills that ban transgender girls from playing female sports in school have been approved by the Michigan House. One bill passed with a strictly party-line ...
Michael Arney May 23, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)

Kent County prosecutor won't retry former Grand Rapids police officer after mistrial
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker says former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr will not be retried for the shooting death in April 2022 of Patrick Lyoya...
Michael Arney May 23, 2025 Photo from the Grand Rapids Police Department's Facebook page.

AUDIO: Parents plead with KPS to not cut elementary assistant librarian
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Parents at Parkwood-Upjohn and Winchell elementary schools are appealing to Kalamazoo Public Schools officials not to cut their assistant librarian this fall. She currentl...
John McNeill May 23, 2025

AUDIO: Ribbon cutting held for KRESA Career Connect Center
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Hundreds of local residents have gotten their first look at Kalamazoo's new Career Connect Center. They snipped the ribbon on the $100 million KRESA facility that will giv...
John McNeill May 23, 2025

Curbside collection of storm debris starts Tuesday in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Even though the power is back on, the clean-up from the May 15 major storm in Kalamazoo continues. Curbside collection of fallen branches and limbs from the storm will sta...
Ken Delaney May 23, 2025 (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)

Man charged with second-degree murder for deadly April crash
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Terry Boss has been arraigned on charges of second-degree murder, reckless driving causing death, and driving while intoxicated causing death for a crash April 26. The 56-ye...
Michael Arney May 22, 2025

Kalamazoo man charged with violating Michigan's safe storage law
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - 25-year-old Jordan Salter of Kalamazoo is charged with violating Michigan's safe storage law. Salter was arraigned Wednesday in 8th District Court in Kalamazoo. His 12-yea...
Michael Arney May 22, 2025 Joe Gratz

Former South Haven police chief resigns from Tennessee job
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former South Haven Police Chief Dennis Honholt, who resigned after less than a month this spring, has also resigned from the job of public safety director in Dover, Tenn...
Michael Arney May 22, 2025

KPS superintendent named Region VII Superintendent of the Year
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade has been named the Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators Region VII Superintendent of the Yea...
Michael Arney May 22, 2025




