Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Organizers with the High on Kalamazoo Balloon Festival are expecting a busy weekend for the event, which starts Friday. This year, the festival is moving from the Air Zoo t...

GasBuddy.com says the average price for gas Kalamazoo has jumped 34 cents in two days, settling at $2.36 a gallon. Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst with the company, says there’s a ver...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo Public Schools are launching a multi-layered and focused effort to improve the academic achievement of African-American male students. The district says it’...

HASTINGS (WKZO-AM) — A Barry County teen who tried to bash a Hastings police officer with a boulder is sitting in a jail after getting hit by a Taser and hospitalized. The officer used the weapo...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — An armed robbery suspect who escaped custody is back in jail after being found hiding out in a home in Hartford. Authorities say Kevin Ware escaped Bronson Methodist Hospit...

ALBION (WKZO-AM) — A shooting on the west side of Albion has left at least four people wounded. It happened at about 10:20 p.m. at the Albion Housing Commission’s low-income housing comple...

NILES (WKZO-AM) — A 10-month-old is dead and five others hurt after a two-car crash on U.S. 31 near Niles. Michigan State Police say it happened at around 4 p.m. Thursday near U.S. 12 after one ...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Unemployment in Kalamazoo was down to 4.8 percent during the second quarter of 2015. The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research says the local rate was at around five per...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo will be getting one of the biggest portions of a nearly $500,000 pot of money set aside by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to help communities pr...

HASTINGS (WKZO-AM) — Police had to use a Taser to subdue a 19-year-old man who tossed a basketball-sized boulder through the windshield of a vehicle in the parking lot of the Hastings Police Dep...