Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Binder Park Zoo has welcomed two new furry friends. Spokesperson Kari Parker says a pair of dingoes are getting comfortable in the zoo’s former bald eagle exhibit....

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Peter Buffet is not the typical child of a billionaire, at least not the kind Kalamazoo is used to. He is not at all reclusive, and he plays piano for a living — at l...

GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO-AM) — A woman arrested in Holland in connection to the sex trafficking of teenage girls is free on $25,000 bond. Stephanie Martin, 23, appeared at U.S. District Court in Grand...

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Sheriff’s deputies in Van Buren County are looking for a person who broke into a home of a local business owner and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. It ha...

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Several people spoke in favor of a plan Thursday that would lead to the construction of a casino at the site of the Great Lakes Downs horse-racing track, which the...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s office says it will not be issuing charges against the 12-year-old boy who shot and killed a pregnant woman in May. They say the chi...

CENTREVILLE (WKZO-AM) — A man accused of inappropriately touching five children at the Abracadabra Daycare in Three Rivers has been found guilty on two counts of accosting a minor and six counts...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Two events will be held Friday celebrating the impact that Dr. Elson Floyd had on Western Michigan University and the Kalamazoo community. Floyd died in June, succumbing to...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Despite a final remediation plan being on the horizon, a new wrinkle may be thrown into the community debate over the Allied Paper Landfill cleanup. A private firm now clai...

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Binder Park Zoo has kicked off one of its most-important annual fundraisers. This year’s Zoo Boo includes a bit of everything, including an Africa-themed haunted h...