Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Michigan Department of Transportation paying for unused rail cars
OWOSSO (WKZO) — The Michigan Department of Transportation is paying 1.1-million dollars a year to lease passenger train cars that have been sitting in a rail yard in mid-Michigan for years. The ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
Senator Stabenow discusses Great Lakes task force
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) — The U.S. Senate Great Lakes Task Force has a new co-chair with Debbie Stabenow joining Senator Matt Kirk of Illinois heading up the panel. Michigan’s senior senat...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
Victim compensation fund stops accepting claims
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) — There was a flurry of activity in the final days to file a claim with the General Motors victim compensation fund. In the two days before Saturday’s deadline, abo...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
Businessman launches campaign to oppose tax increase
LANSING (WKZO) — A Saginaw County businesses man is launching a campaign to fight a proposed sales tax increase. On Friday Paul Mitchell formed a ballot campaign committee called the Coalition A...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
Michigan farmers push for sales tax hike
LANSING (WKZO) — Farmers statewide are urging people to vote in favor of the May ballot proposal to increase the sales tax by one-percent as part of a deal to fund road repairs. The Michigan Far...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
New effort to reform no-fault insurance bubbling in Lansing
LANSING (WKZO) — House Insurance Committee chairman Tom Leonard is expressing confidence that Michigan’s comprehensive no-fault auto insurance system can be reformed this session. The DeWi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
St. Joseph County prohibiting travel on some roads after snow storm
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY (WKZO) — Some Cities have declared snow emergencies, and Cass and St. Joseph Counties have gone one step further. The snow was the deepest along the Indiana border. St. Joseph ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
UPDATE: Controversial Design Guidelines vote delayed due to weather
UPDATE: Monday night’s meeting was cancelled due to the heavy snowfall on Sunday. It has not been rescheduled. The Creation of the Southtown Design Review District will likely be on the next age...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 02, 2015
Wanted fugitive captured in Van Buren County
VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO) — A fugitive who was wanted on a couple of warrants before he was involved in a domestic dispute in the Sister Lakes area in Van Buren County spent Super Bowl Sunday in t...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 01, 2015
Brazen robbers enter WMU dorm to stick-up student at gunpoint
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — There has been another on-campus hold-up, this time inside a building at Western Michigan University. A male student says he was confronted by a pair of black males on the thi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 01, 2015
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