Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Mbah: Sell city-owned properties to make up deficit
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Mayoral candidate Kris Mbah says he thinks he knows how to solve Kalamazoo’s deficit problem. The local non-profit operator and resident of the Millwood neighborhood ...
Oct 29, 2015
Van Buren County Sheriff's deputy injured after weather-caused crash
PAW PAW (WKZO-AM) — Michigan State Police accident investigators are blaming the weather in part for a crash that left a Van Buren County Sheriff’s deputy with an injured hand. His cruiser...
Oct 29, 2015
Artley and Goodacre: Community help brought us out of homelessness
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Retired Kalamazoo County official David Artley and Kalamazoo Township trustee Pamela Brown Goodacre say they both remember being homeless and how hard it was. Both are in s...
Oct 29, 2015
College debt up 57 percent in Michigan, according to study
UNDATED (WKZO-AM) — A new report by the Institute for College Access and Success says Michigan college students are graduating with 57 percent more debt than a decade ago. The non-profit says gr...
Oct 28, 2015
Holland battery-maker to pay back $3.75 million to the state
HOLLAND (WKZO-AM) — Johnson Controls has agreed to pay $3.75 million back to the state after failing to create 400 jobs at its Meadowbrook advanced battery plant on 48th Street in Holland. As pa...
Oct 28, 2015
Fleck: Broncos prepared for Thursday game against Eastern Michigan
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Western Michigan University head football coach P.J. Fleck expects his team to be ready for its first mid-week game of the season against in-state rival Eastern Michigan. &...
Oct 28, 2015
Walgreens to buy Rite Aid for $17 billion
UNDATED (WKZO-AM) — A pair of drug store giants that have been duking it out for supremacy in west Michigan are coming together. Walgreens is buying Rite Aid in a $17 billion deal that includes ...
Oct 28, 2015
Ground broken on new Kalamazoo facility for foster children and families
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Just months after Family and Children Services launched their public campaign for funding, they have reached their goal and broken ground on a new family visitation and lea...
Oct 28, 2015
Man ID'd after fatal crash on M-96 near Galesburg
GALESBURG (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo County authorities have released the name of a 71-year-old from Galesburg who was killed Monday evening when his car went off M-96 and struck a tree. Evidence fro...
Oct 28, 2015
Package to fund Michigan road repairs stalls
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — Despite it looking like lawmakers were close to a deal, a plan to fix Michigan’s crumbling roads has fizzled once again. For most Democrats, the problem with this lates...
Oct 28, 2015
