Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
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
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board recognizes service of vice chair pro-tem Jeff Heppler
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Every elected body has its old hands, its senior members who have served for decades, unless of course they are term limited. With the year coming to an end the Kalamazoo ...
Dec 09, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to vote on senior millage recommendations at next meeting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners have given the public a bigger role to play in how money from the new senior millage is spent. The county collects the $2.8 million the mill...
Dec 09, 2024 Keith Cooper / CC
Three teens arrested for carrying concealed weapons in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three teenagers are in the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home facing charges of carrying concealed weapons. Kalamazoo Public Safety arrested the teens, two of them being 16-y...
Dec 09, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission diving into 2025 budget today
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners will hold a special meeting later this afternoon to take a deep dive into their 2025 proposed budget. Like any budget, most of the $85-million...
Dec 09, 2024
AUDIO: KPS has three information sessions today about replacing El Sol Elementary
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Plans for a groundbreaking ceremony for Kalamazoo Public Schools new central kitchen were cancelled Thursday because of the snowy weather. There is another construction pr...
Dec 09, 2024
One dead in Kalamazoo fire Sunday night
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety says one person was found dead in a home after a fire last night. They were called to the home on Clayborne Drive near South Drake Road just after ...
Dec 09, 2024
Program helping more homeless families in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new program from Integrated Services of Kalamazoo is helping homeless families find homes thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Kalamazoo County Housing Millage. ISK has h...
Dec 06, 2024
