Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Police asking for public help after Kalamazoo man dies from gunshot wound
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is now asking for the public's assistance following a fatal shooting last week. 23-year-old Shaughqual Laqia Anderson died from a...
Mar 24, 2025 Shaughqual Laqia Anderson (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
Commission selects finalists for next Battle Creek city manager
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The field of applicants for Battle Creek City Manager has been narrowed to three, and the City Commission will interview finalists next month. The commission held a clo...
Mar 24, 2025 City of Battle Creek logo
Survey results show Kalamazoo has work to do
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - New survey results show that the city of Kalamazoo may have work to do. Results from the Polco national survey shows that the services and issues that Kalamazoo residents ...
Mar 24, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall in the fall. (Photo by John McNeill).
AUDIO: Final trimester underway at Kalamazoo Public Schools
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The final trimester in Kalamazoo Public Schools begins today, as the district will be changing back to semesters this fall. Superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade says this is a ...
Mar 24, 2025 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix High School (photo courtesy of Kalamazoo Public Schools)
Oberon Day is today
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Today is Oberon Day, an unofficial start to summer. Bell's Brewery is releasing the citrusy ale for 2025 today and celebrating at Bell's Eccentric Caf in Kalamazoo with a ...
Mar 24, 2025 Nicholas Upton / CC
Kalamazoo Public Schools students getting a look at college campus life this week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools 7th and 9th graders will heading for college this week, to get a flavor for life on campus, and an education on what it takes to go on to higher e...
Mar 24, 2025
KPS strategic plan meetings begin today
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools administrators will be holding sessions in all 25 of their schools buildings over the next month and a half to present their proposed strategic pl...
Mar 24, 2025
AUDIO: Hundreds protest Social Security changes, possible cuts in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Hundreds of people protested outside the Social Security Office in Kalamazoo on Saturday, demanding the federal government not make changes to the program. Jayne Trombley ...
Mar 24, 2025 pressmaster / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo County jobless rate goes up to 4.9% in January
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Not seasonally adjusted jobless rates rose in all 18 Michigan labor market areas for January, including in Kalamazoo County. According to data released last week by the Mi...
Mar 24, 2025 Kevin Smith / CC
1,000 food professionals from across the world expected to attend WMU conference this week in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Food service industry representatives will be descending on downtown Kalamazoo later this week, as Western Michigan University hosts its annual Food Marketing Conference. ...
Mar 23, 2025
