Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
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)
Money recognizes Kalamazoo as one of the 50 Best Places to Live in the U.S.
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Money, a personal finance website, has listed Kalamazoo and Detroit as two of the 50 Best Places to Live in the U.S. in 2024, with a special mention to Ferndale as a subur...
Sep 17, 2024 (courtesy Rangely García / Money)
Trowbridge Dam work to close boat launch in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Work on the Trowbridge Dam on the Kalamazoo River will cause the closing the boat launch at 26th Street beginning this Friday. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officia...
Sep 17, 2024 Field staging area at 26th Street Boat Launch. (Photo courtesy of Paul Ruesch and EPA).
AG Nessel in Kalamazoo Monday to promote one year anniversary of Address Confidentiality Program
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State and local officials were in Kalamazoo Monday to mark the one year anniversary of a program created to provide certain protections for victims of domestic violence, s...
Sep 17, 2024
Beaty no longer BC Fire Chief; Bagley named interim director
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - There has been a change at the top of the Battle Creek Fire Department. Former Fire Chief Bill Beaty and the city parted ways on Monday. Battle Creek Police Chief Shanno...
Sep 16, 2024 Photo courtesy City of Battle Creek
