Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
45,000 riders for Kalamazoo's Metro Link in first year of operation
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Metro officials are touting the success of Metro Link, their flexible on-demand public transit service, as it celebrates its one-year anniversary this month, Lau...
Apr 12, 2025
Emergency shelter closes, but other resources still available for Allegan County residents forced from their homes by gas leak
FENNVILLE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Even though efforts to restore natural gas service to around 5,200 Michigan Gas Utilities customers in the Fennville, Saugatuck and Douglas areas continues, officials say ...
Apr 11, 2025
Searchers find body of missing Allegan County woman Friday morning
SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The body of a 67-year-old Saugatuck Township who had been missing since Thursday afternoon has been found. The Allegan County Sheriff's Office says the body of Na...
Apr 11, 2025 Nancy Eichler-O’Connell (courtesy Allegan County Sheriff's Office)
Battle Creek police arrest man for drunk driving, crashing into home
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek police have arrested a 30-year-old Grand Rapids man for reckless driving and crashing through a home on Upton Avenue. It started with a 911 call about a si...
Apr 11, 2025
Harbor dredging efforts along Lake Michigan could be impacted by federal cuts
GRAND HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Harbor dredging efforts along the Lake Michigan shoreline are uncertain right now with federal spending cuts. Congresswoman Hillary Scholten of Grand Rapids says this is...
Apr 11, 2025 U.S. Capitol building. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Governor Whitmer says she stayed at White House to "make the case for Michigan"
AUBURN HILLS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she was not expecting to be invited to President Trump's press conference at the White House Wednesday. She says she stayed desp...
Apr 11, 2025
Michigan Supreme Court bans life without parole sentences for 19, 20-year-old murderers
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Life in prison without parole sentences for 19-and-20-year-olds convicted of murder are now banned in Michigan. The state Supreme Court ruled those sentences are "cruel and ...
Apr 11, 2025
Western Michigan University student gets visa revoked
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After four Western Michigan University international students were removed form an immigration system tracking their status, one WMU student has had their visa revoked. In...
Apr 11, 2025
AUDIO: Saturday school over for KPS students
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Saturday school in Kalamazoo has ended for the few hundred elementary and middle school students assigned to take the extra sessions in math and reading. This year, Kalama...
Apr 11, 2025
Consumers Energy to upgrade natural gas distribution pipelines in Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy says it is upgrading and installing new natural gas distribution pipelines along key corridors in Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties, in an effort to enhanc...
Apr 11, 2025 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
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