Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo Math and Science Center students presenting findings from summer research today
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A select group of young scientists from the Kalamazoo Math and Science Center has spent their summer studying the local environment, primarily water quality and biodiversi...
Jul 24, 2024
AUDIO: FEMA denies disaster declaration request for May 7 tornadoes
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied the request of Governor Gretchen Whitmer for a major disaster declaration for the May 7 tornadoes that hit Branch, Cass, K...
Jul 24, 2024 EpicTop10.com / CC
Allegan County Sheriff's Department to deploy new vehicles
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO-AM/FM, WHTC-AM/FM) - The changing look of the Allegan County Sheriff's Department continues. On the heels of last November's switch from brown uniforms to black uniforms come news th...
Jul 24, 2024 The 2024 Allegan County Sheriff's Department patrol vehicle. (photo courtesy Allegan County Sheriff's Department)
Man dies from fall inside abandoned building in Parchment
PARCHMENT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man police say was removing scrap metal from an abandoned mill in Parchment has died after falling inside the building Tuesday morning. The Township of Kalamazoo Police ...
Jul 23, 2024 BMN Network / CC
Former Kalamazoo Township manager pleads no contest to willful neglect of duty
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Kalamazoo Township Manager Dexter Mitchell has pled no contest to a charge of willful neglect of duty as a public officer. Mitchell pled no contest Monday. He had b...
Jul 23, 2024 Kalamazoo Township Manager Dexter Mitchell (courtesy Kalamazoo Township)
MDOT begins work on I-196 in Allegan County
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Transportation is working to resurface I-196 in Allegan County. The project began Monday and is scheduled to last until mid-November. The w...
Jul 23, 2024
AUDIO: Senator Nesbitt says President Biden should resign
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt of Van Buren County says with President Biden exiting the presidential race this fall, he needs to take one more step. Nesbitt...
Jul 22, 2024 State Senator Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton. (Photo courtesy Michigan Senate Republicans).
AUDIO: Kalamazoo getting $1 million grant from USDA for tree removal, replanting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo already has an aggressive program for planting trees along city streets and a $1-million grant is about to expand that. The money, from the U.S. Depa...
Jul 22, 2024
Vacant building catches fire in Comstock Township
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A vacant building in Comstock Township caught fire early Sunday morning. Township firefighters say no one was hurt and the fire was at a building that used to be a...
Jul 22, 2024 Comstock fire department (photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Housing choice voucher program not releasing new vouchers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The situation for the hundreds who are living on the streets in Kalamazoo, and those trying to avoid it, is about to get a little worse, especially those who choose not to...
Jul 22, 2024 Mess from homeless encampment on the Kalamazoo River - Courtesy Kalamazoo River Alliance
