Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Portage Public Schools holding meet-and-greet for superintendent finalists Wednesday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As the Portage Public Schools board of education gets closer to making a final choice for their new superintendent of schools, the public has been invited to meet the candid...
May 20, 2025 Portage Public Schools logo courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
AUDIO: Catholics hold Mass of Thanksgiving in Kalamazoo for Pope Leo XIV
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Catholics gathered at St. Augustine Cathedral last evening in Kalamazoo to hold a Mass of Thanksgiving for Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo is known to parishioners in west Michigan...
May 20, 2025 Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo sign (Photo by John McNeil)
National Weather Service confirms 25 tornadoes to date in Michigan for 2025
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The National Weather Service confirms 25 tornadoes have hit Michigan so far this year, which is the most since 2010 when 27 twisters touched down. The record for the nu...
May 20, 2025 Tornado in Port Austin - Credit Mike Pruett
AUDIO: Kalamazoo moves closer to new affordable housing project
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Another new affordable housing project could be going up on the southside of downtown Kalamazoo someday. Last night local developer Jamauri Bogan asked to have a 1.3 acre ...
May 20, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo keeping water pressure good despite power outages
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Some local homes and businesses remain without power this morning, five days after last Thursday's severe storms blew through Kalamazoo County. Kalamazoo utilities directo...
May 20, 2025 (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
AG Nessel: Secretary of State Benson violated Michigan Campaign Finance Act
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says her office has concluded that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson violated the Michigan Campaign Finance Act on January 22. That is ...
May 20, 2025 Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, attends an Election Night party, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Graphic Packaging International seeking permit to improve air quality
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Graphic Packaging International has submitted a request to the state of Michigan for a permit which may further improve air quality near its north side paper recycling pla...
May 20, 2025 (Photo provided by John McNeill)
I-69 traffic stop in Branch County yields enough drugs "to kill approximately one million people"
COLDWATER TOWNSHIP, MI - Michigan State Police say a driver they stopped for speeding on I-69 on Branch County Saturday had over two kilograms of heroin/fentanyl in her vehicle, with a street value of...
May 19, 2025 VadimVasenin / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo woman jailed after accident that killed a bicyclist in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 70-year-old Battle Creek man was killed in a vehicle-bicycle accident in the Urbandale neighborhood, late Sunday. Battle Creek Police responded to tye accident in the...
May 19, 2025 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
Three men arrested by KVET, DEA, ATF
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three men have been arrested after the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team executed three search warrants on May 15 along with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration an...
May 19, 2025
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