Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Michikal work begins today
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo is expected to begin breaking up concrete today on the most expensive road project in its history. Work commences today on Michikal, as the city begins eliminati...
Jun 10, 2024 Road closed sign
Kalamazoo house fire under investigation
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A house fire in Kalamazoo is under investigation. Kalamazoo Public Safety responded to the fire around 8:20 Sunday night in the 600 block of Village. Heavy fire and smoke ...
Jun 10, 2024 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety graphic (courtesy of KDPS)
Suspect in May 30th shooting incident in Kalamazoo Township arrested, charged
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Township Police Department has announced the arrest and arraignment of a suspect wanted in a shooting incident on May 30th. Officers were summoned to an addre...
Jun 07, 2024
Overheated electrical device causes $7,000 fire at Pinnacle Care of BC
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - An overheated portable patient/visitor temperature reading machine is being listed as the cause of a late Wednesday night fire at Pinnacle Care of Battle Creek on Wagner...
Jun 07, 2024 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
Busy weekend ahead in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This is a busy weekend in Kalamazoo. In Kalamazoo, things start with Art on the Mall from noon to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with displays by 60 plus loca...
Jun 07, 2024 Downtown Kalamazoo, MI (courtesy Southwest Michigan First)
National Cereal Festival starts in downtown Battle Creek on Friday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The National Cereal Festival, which is Battle Creek's signature summer event celebrating its heritage as the birthplace of the cereal industry, is set to return to the d...
Jun 07, 2024
Babysitter pleads no contest to 26 charges
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Wyoming man has pled no contest to 26 charges for sexually abusing a two-year-old girl he had been hired to babysit in Allegan. Gary Carlson also admitted to sending expli...
Jun 07, 2024 Gary Christopher Carlson (photo courtesy Allegan Co. Sheriff's Dept.)
AUDIO: Two charged in 2023 Kalamazoo County drug overdose death
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two men are charged with drug dealing after at least six people died and ten were hospitalized in Kalamazoo County last April 12 and 13 from using cocaine laced with fenta...
Jun 07, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board holds strategic planning session
TEXAS TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There has been a lot of turnover at the top in Kalamazoo County government in the past few years, and the county board held the second of a pair of sessions with a fa...
Jun 07, 2024
Urban Alliance to host Life Camp to steer youth sway from gun violence in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With the goal to help provide area youth with tools and resources to step outside the cycles of gun violence within Kalamazoo, Urban Alliance will kick off its third annua...
Jun 07, 2024
