Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Battle Creek proposing modernizing, upgrading fire departments
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - City officials in Battle Creek are proposing modernizing and upgrading their fire stations. City Manager Rebecca Fleury says the firefighters deserve better facilities ...
Sep 18, 2024 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
Two men arrested with knives, BB guns in Battle Creek elementary parking lot
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two men were found by Battle Creek police in the parking lot of an elementary school yesterday afternoon with knives and BB guns. Police say the two told them they pull...
Sep 18, 2024
Pit bull mix dog stolen from mini van parked at I-94 rest area
MARENGO TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Michigan State Police from the Marshall Post are investigating last week's theft of a six-month-old pit bull mix dog from a white mini van at the rest area on I-94 i...
Sep 18, 2024 Courtesy Michigan State Police Marshall Post
13-month-old Portage boy dies
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 13-month-old Portage boy has died after being found unresponsive Tuesday morning. Portage Public Safety was called to the home in the 600 block of Della Street just before...
Sep 18, 2024 Accident in Portage Tuesday seriously injures Kalamazoo man (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board gets first look at proposed 2025 budget
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board got their first look at the staff's proposed budget for 2025 last night and will be asked to pass it next month. Administrator Kevin Catlin says...
Sep 18, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Gun fired in Costco belonged to off-duty Michigan State Police trooper
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says the gun that went off inside the Oshtemo Township Costco store Sunday was a state-issued service weapon of a Michigan Sta...
Sep 18, 2024 (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: City of Kalamazoo subscribes to Consumers Energy renewable energy program
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city government has set a goal of making their operations carbon neutral by the year 2050. They took a step in that direction last night by becoming one of the f...
Sep 17, 2024
KVET arrests 52-year-old Kalamazoo Township man in drug bust
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team has arrested a 52-year-old Kalamazoo Township man for drug dealing. KVET executed a search warrant last Thursday at a home i...
Sep 17, 2024
AUDIO: Proposed ordinance would make pedestrians entering work zones a civil infraction in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An ordinance that would make it a civil violation for a pedestrian to enter a designated work zone has been put on the table at Kalamazoo City Hall. The city attorney's of...
Sep 17, 2024 Kalamazoo City Hall in the fall. (Photo by John McNeill).
AUDIO: Northside residents in Kalamazoo say weekend partying a big issue
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Following the latest murder in Kalamazoo, residents in one northside Kalamazoo neighborhood say weekend partying is ruining their quality of life. 20-year-old Ladarious Ja...
Sep 17, 2024 Kalamazoo Public Safety police cruiser (photo by John McNeil)
