Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
WMU receives $3.17 million grant to reduce the weight, cost, volume, and emissions footprint of EVs
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Researchers at Western Michigan University have received a $3.17 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to spur development of an integrated charger-inverter system, whic...
Sep 11, 2024 Plug-in electric vehicle with charger Plug-in electric vehicle with charger
Second annual Portage Parks Foundation's Oktoberfest is Saturday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage Parks Foundation's second annual Oktoberfest is set for Saturday. The event will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at South Westnedge Park at 9010 South Westnedge Avenue ...
Sep 10, 2024
Road to Restoration clinic coming to Kalamazoo Friday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Secretary of State's Office is brining a driver's license restoration clinic to Kalamazoo on Friday. The Road to Restoration clinic will be from 11 a.m. to 4 ...
Sep 10, 2024
AUDIO: State House Republicans introduce package of bills to address education funding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State House Republicans have introduced a package of bills they say would address shortfalls on school spending in the upcoming fiscal year. Minority Leader Matt Hall of R...
Sep 10, 2024 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Crews begin work on Claude Evans Park project in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - City contractors have begun construction work at Claude Evans Park in Battle Creek. In addition to new parking lots, the improvement project will deliver a new cul-de-sa...
Sep 10, 2024 Courtesy City of Battle Creek
Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 kicks off September 19 with open house
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 will start work to shape what the city will look like next Thursday with an open house at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. That will start an 18-mon...
Sep 10, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo arson suspect called 911, watched fires burn
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The 32-year-old man charged with setting eight fires in Kalamazoo stuck around to watch them burn and court documents say he called 9-1-1 for one of the fires. Kalamazoo F...
Sep 10, 2024
Kalamazoo Township to purchase land for new township hall, police department
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Township will purchase just over 17-acres of land at 3006 Douglas Avenue for a new township hall and police department. The township board of trustees u...
Sep 10, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Township)
Grant allows Cassopolis Public Schools to replace three diesel buses with electric
CASSOPOLIS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Cassopolis Public Schools has been awarded a federal grant to replace three 19-year-old diesel buses with three new electric school buses. The grant funded approximat...
Sep 10, 2024 (courtesy Cassopolis Public Schools)
Three mile stretch of H Drive North in Calhoun County closed for road work
MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Road Department says work has begun on H Drive North in Marshall Township. That means a three mile section of road will be closed for about four ...
Sep 09, 2024 Courtesy Calhoun County Road Department
