Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
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
K-9 helps Calhoun County deputies arrest Illinois man on drug charge
MARENGO TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A Calhoun County Sheriff's Office K-9 assisted in the arrest of an Illinois man on Saturday night. The Sheriff's Office says they were dispatched to the area of west...
Sep 16, 2024 Courtesy Calhoun County Sheriff's Department
Kalamazoo City Commission considering MDOT negotiations on closing railway crossings
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo City Commission will consider beginning negotiations with the Michigan Department of Transportation to close three railway crossings at tonight's meeting. Th...
Sep 16, 2024 Railroad Crossing (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Three persons shot following argument in parking lot of Battle Creek bar
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Battle Creek Police say an argument in the parking lot of the #1 Legends Club on Porter Street in the Post Addition eventually led to the shooting of three persons short...
Sep 16, 2024
Man arrested on attempted murder charges for trying to kill wife
BLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Van Buren County Sheriff's Office says a man has been arrested on attempted murder charges. They say he tried to stab and choke his wife to death at their ...
Sep 16, 2024 (Photo by John McNeil)
Schoolcraft man charged in Kalamazoo stabbings
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 39-year-old Schoolcraft man is charged with stabbing people in three assaults in Kalamazoo September 12 and September 13. Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting says W...
Sep 16, 2024 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
Michigan's average gas price remains $3.25
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices across Michigan are holding steady with last week's average at $3.25. Triple-A Michigan says the price is down 27-cents in the past month and 47-cents less than ...
Sep 16, 2024
One killed, one injured in Kalamazoo shooting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is searching for a shooting suspect who killed one person early Saturday morning. The victim and one of their three passengers were shot as they we...
Sep 16, 2024 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Gun owner injured after gun goes off in her purse at Kalamazoo County store
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A woman whose firearm went off accidentally in her purse at a Kalamazoo County store Sunday afternoon was injured, as well as another nearby customer. The Kalamazoo...
Sep 15, 2024 (Photo by John McNeil).
