Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County joining effort to provide hotel rooms for homeless
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM.FM) - Kalamazoo County will join the city of Kalamazoo and a local volunteer group that is providing hotel rooms for the homeless as the extremely cold weather persists. So far ...
Feb 19, 2025 AndrewLozovyi / Depositphotos.com
Portage authorities looking for hit and run driver who struck bicyclist Monday night
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage Department of Public Safety is looking for the public's help in identifying a suspect involved in a non-fatal hit and run of a bicyclist Monday night. At approxi...
Feb 18, 2025 72soul / Depositphotos.com
City of Kalamazoo credits Streets For All initiative for the decline in traffic crashes
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - City of Kalamazoo officials say 2024 proved to be a safer year for city-wide crashes, thanks to their Streets for All initiatives to narrow streets and reduce speeds. Tota...
Feb 18, 2025
Calhoun County Public Health Department has free gun locks available
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Free gun locks are being made available by the Calhoun County Public Health Department. CCHPD says the gun locks are free to any county resident who has guns in their h...
Feb 18, 2025 Courtesy Calhoun County Health Department Facebook page
Portage Public Schools holding focus group February 26 in search for new superintendent
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage Public Schools will hold a focus group session next Wednesday, February 26 at 6 p.m. as they work on the search process for the next superintendent. Participants wil...
Feb 18, 2025 Portage Public Schools logo courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
Two senior living communities in Kalamazoo area honored
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two StoryPoint Group senior living communities in the area have been recognized with the A Place for Mom 2025 Best of Senior Living Award. Those are StoryPoint Portage and...
Feb 18, 2025
City of Kalamazoo extends free bus ride program for students for three more years
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo has agreed to extend a program that gives free bus rides to the city's teens for another three years. The unique agreement with Metro Transit and Kyd...
Feb 18, 2025
Kalamazoo utilities director believes 2025 won't be as disruptive for road work in city as 2024
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's going to be another busy construction season in Kalamazoo, but one city official says it's going to be a much less disruptive one than last year. Bad timing forced th...
Feb 18, 2025 City of Kalamazoo Utility Director James Baker at the City Commission meeting Sept 6, 2022
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission approves tax-exempt Neighborhood Enterprise Zone
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo city commission has approved a tax-exempt Neighborhood Enterprise Zone in downtown for the development of new one-bedroom apartments. Developers Brian and Ca...
Feb 18, 2025 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission urged to take bold action for homeless
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With wind chills dipping below zero following the freezing death of a homeless woman in Kalamazoo, homeless advocates demanded the city commission take bold action now, to...
Feb 18, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall in winter. (Photo by John McNeil)
