Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office investigating shots fires incident from Saturday evening
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shots fired incident that occurred in the City of Springfield on Saturday night. Deputies were dispatched to the int...
Feb 16, 2026 Screenshot
Portage holding planning commission hearing on data center, energy storage facility moratorium
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - They may be the future, but some residents want no part of data centers and energy storage facilities. Both the city of Portage and Oshtemo Township have plans to impose mor...
Feb 16, 2026 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts exhibit will feature over 1,500 young artists
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The work of over 1,500 young artists will be on display this coming weekend at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. The KIA is holding their annual Young Artists of Kalamazoo ...
Feb 16, 2026 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (courtesy KIA)
AUDIO: Two new businesses opening in Portage this week
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two new businesses open in Portage this week and it could impact your plans. As we told you last week, Raising Cane's, a new fast food chicken restaurant, is expected to ope...
Feb 16, 2026
No injuries in Sunday afternoon house fire
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It took firefighters to put out a blaze Sunday afternoon in Kalamazoo. At 12:06 pm, officers responded for a structure fire in the 1300 block of Krom Street. When officers...
Feb 15, 2026
KDPS warns about falling ice damaging gas meters
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With recent warmer temperatures, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says it has seen a rise in calls regarding residential gas meters damaged by falling ice. They s...
Feb 15, 2026 IndyEdge / Depositphotos.com
One dead after crash on West Main late Saturday
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says speed appears to be a factor in fatal crash late Saturday night in Ostemo Township. Around 11:40 p.m. Kalamazoo Consolida...
Feb 15, 2026 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
No injuries in early Saturday blaze in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM] - There were no injuries in an early Saturday blaze in a Portage trailer park. At approximately 3:45 a.m. the Portage Fire Division responded to a reported structure fire at 4...
Feb 14, 2026 (courtesy Portage Department of Public Safety)
KVET investigation leads to arrest, seizure of drugs and automatic handgun
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Oshtemo Township man faces drug and weapons charges after a raid by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Crime Reducti...
Feb 13, 2026
Sextortion investigation by Calhoun County Sheriff's Office leads to North Carolina man's arrest
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A North Carolina man is in police custody and facing over 25 felony sex crime charges after a sextortion investigation began with the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office. T...
Feb 13, 2026 Calhoun County Sheriff's Office cruisers. (Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office).
