Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Suspect charged with murder of Minette Weaver in November 2024
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Prosecutors have charged 53-year-old Marvin Humphrey of Kalamazoo with open murder in the death of 68-year-old Minette Weaver in November 2024. Humphrey was arrested Wedne...
Jan 31, 2025 (Photo of what the new Kalamazoo County Justice Center will look like upon completion)
Topping-Out ceremony marks completion of steel erection at BlueOval Park
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The controversial BlueOval Battery Park in Marshall recently reached a major construction milestone. The final steel beam was raised December 19 on the primary facility. Con...
Jan 31, 2025 Courtesy Ford Blue Oval Park
State superintendent wants changes to in-person instruction time rules
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan schools Superintendent Michael Rice is urging lawmakers to tighten regulations on the rules for what would qualify as in-person instruction time. Rice says the chan...
Jan 30, 2025 State Superintendent Dr. Michael Rice (Photo by John McNeil)
New Kalamazoo Event Center expected to generate millions for other businesses
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - What kind of gamechanger will Kalamazoo's new $300-million Event Center be for downtown Kalamazoo. Right now it's just piles of dirt next to the new Kalamazoo County Court...
Jan 30, 2025 Discover Kalamazoo Director Jane Ghosh (photo by John McNeill)
Calhoun County solar project expected to power 69,000 homes
LEE TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Another major solar project is underway in Calhoun County. Consumers Energy and Hecate Energy announced Wednesday that initial site work has begun on the 360-megawatt S...
Jan 29, 2025 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
Babysitter charged after armed five-year-old opens door for cadet
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man who was babysitting at a Battle Creek home is charged with child abuse after a five-year-old he was caring for opened the door with a loaded handgun when a police...
Jan 29, 2025 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
96-year-old man killed in Van Buren County crash
ANTWERP TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Van Buren County Sheriff's Office says a 96-year-old Mattawan man was killed Tuesday afternoon in a crash in Antwerp Township. The man was driving a Ford pickup...
Jan 29, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil)
Suspect from Kalamazoo injured when shot breaking into Kalamazoo Township home
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 49-year-old person from Kalamazoo is hospitalized after they were shot and injured trying to break into two homes in Kalamazoo Township early Tuesday morning. P...
Jan 29, 2025 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Congressman Bill Huizenga among those weighing a U.S. Senate run in 2026
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Several politicians are weighing a run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan next year with the announcement that Democratic Senator Gary Peters won't seek a third term. Veteran...
Jan 29, 2025 Michigan 4th District Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland)
AUDIO: Women who built Gibson guitars in Kalamazoo in World War II celebrated tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The women who stepped up during World War Two and made guitars at the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo will be celebrated tonight at Bell's Eccentric Caf. John Thomas wrote a b...
Jan 29, 2025
