Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Michigan Strategic Fund awards Kalamazoo County business $2.5 million for expansion
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo County manufacturing firm has been awarded a $2.5 million performance-based state grant for an expansion that should create at least 125 new jobs and a...
Dec 10, 2024 (courtesy Landscape Forms, Inc.)
Former parent club member at Plainwell Gilkey Elementary School facing embezzlement charges
PLAINWELL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A former parent club member at Plainwell's Gilkey Elementary School is facing embezzlement charges. 44-year-old Tara Drewyor is accused of stealing money from the parent c...
Dec 10, 2024 Plainwell Community Schools logo (courtesy of Plainwell Community Schools Facebook page)
KPS officials say building new elementary where El Sol Elementary exists wouldn't work
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools officials say building a new El Sol Elementary in the Vine neighborhood where the school has been located is not going to work. Parents learned th...
Dec 10, 2024
Michigan Supreme Court won't hear appeal of Kalamazoo County sexual assault suspect
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Supreme Court will not hear an appeal by a Kalamazoo County man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. That means prosecutors will be allowed to int...
Dec 10, 2024
Westland man sent to federal prison in 2020 Albion Hydroponics robbery
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten has announced that 27-year-old Andrew Curtis Williams of Westland, Michigan, was sentenced to 110 months i...
Dec 10, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Another Winter Storm Watch issued for West Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Another blast of winter weather is taking aim at West Michigan later beginning this evening. A Winter Storm Watch from the National Weather Service stretches from the Kala...
Dec 10, 2024 (courtesy National Weather Service-Grand Rapids)
Hand recount underway in Michigan House District 44
MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The hand recount of all the votes cast in the state House 44th District by the Board of State Canvassers is underway in Marshall. Incumbent Democrat Jim Haadsma was defeate...
Dec 10, 2024 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commissioners dive into proposed 2025 budget
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - You think you spend a lot of money this time of the year. The Kalamazoo city commissioners not only have to do their Christmas shopping, but decide how the city will spend...
Dec 10, 2024
Portage Northern High School to present record-breaking fundraising check Friday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage Northern High School will present a record-breaking donation to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital on Friday. Students will present a check for more than $45,000 from thi...
Dec 09, 2024 Portage Public Schools logo courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
Michigan's average gas price under $3 a gallon
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gas price is back under $3 a gallon for the first time since January. Triple-A Michigan says the price is down 14-cents in the past week to $2.94. A 15-g...
Dec 09, 2024
