Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to vote on 2025 budget tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board is scheduled to hold a public hearing and take a final vote on their proposed 2025 budget tonight, but still have some items to nail down. Among...
Oct 15, 2024
AUDIO: Women's march held at Bronson Park in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Hundreds of people turned up for a women's march in Bronson Park in downtown Kalamazoo Sunday, coming from all over Michigan and northwest Indiana. The women called for su...
Oct 14, 2024
Unattended campfire destroys outbuilding in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An unattended campfire in Portage quickly spread to a nearby outbuilding Saturday afternoon on Harvest Lane. The outbuilding was a complete loss, but firefighters got the fl...
Oct 14, 2024 Arseni Mourzenko
Second suspect arrested, charged in July 24 Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The second suspect in the July 24 murder of 30-year-old Charles Weir on Fox Ridge Drive has been arrested. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says 21-year-old Deyon...
Oct 14, 2024
AUDIO: Homeless issues continue to prompt people to call for city of Kalamazoo action
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Affordable housing continues to be a problem in Kalamazoo, and pressure is once again building now that temperatures have begun to dip. Public comment at city commission m...
Oct 14, 2024 Mess from homeless encampment on the Kalamazoo River - Courtesy Kalamazoo River Alliance
Man arrested in KVET bust
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 45-year-old Kalamazoo man is facing several felony charges after the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team executed a search warrant Thursday in the 700 block of Staples Ave...
Oct 14, 2024
SUV strikes hay ride south of Allegan, several hurt
TROWBRIDGE TWP., MI (WKZO-AM/FM) - A fall fun tradition turned sour south of Allegan on Saturday evening, Oct. 12. According to Allegan County Sheriff's Sergeant Blair Kacos, deputies and other first ...
Oct 12, 2024
Consumers Energy giving test drives in electric vehicles October 19 at KVCC
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - People will have an opportunity next Saturday, October 19, to test drive an electric vehicle at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Consumers Energy is giving customers th...
Oct 11, 2024
AUDIO: Sports talk dominates Portage council, Kalamazoo Public Schools meetings
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The presidential election is less than a month away and some people are already voting, but everyone around here is talking about sports. The Detroit Tigers are in the pos...
Oct 11, 2024
Smoking in bed blamed for Portage apartment fire
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 63-year-old woman in Portage was smoking in bed and it started a fire Wednesday evening in an apartment in the 700 block of Barrington Drive. Portage Public Safety firefig...
Oct 10, 2024 Portage fire truck. (Photo courtesy City of Portage).
