Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Man hit, killed in Battle Creek hit-and-run
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 61-year-old man has been killed in a hit-and-run crash in Battle Creek. Police say he was on a bicycle when he was hit in the 800 block of East Michigan Avenue in the...
May 24, 2024
KVCC holds ribbon cutting for new school of cosmetology and barbering
TEXAS TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Valley Community College has cut the ribbon on its new school of cosmetology and barbering. It will be in a renovated 10,000-square-foot building on its Tex...
May 24, 2024 Kalamazoo Valley Community College sign (photo courtesy of Kalamazoo Valley Community College)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools has one more community session on strategic plan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - No one will be able to say that Kalamazoo Public Schools didn't get public input before they embarked on their latest effort to rewrite the district's strategic plan. Supe...
May 24, 2024
AUDIO: Plenty of Memorial Day events in the Kalamazoo area
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Memorial Day weekend may mark the beginning of the summer season, but that's not why we have a three-day holiday at the end of every May. It was originally established...
May 24, 2024 U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa / CC
Man arrested after five-hour standoff with Battle Creek police
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek police have arrested a man after a five-hour standoff during a mental health crisis yesterday. Officers were called to the home on Lathrop Avenue near Eucl...
May 24, 2024
Kalamazoo Public Safety wants tips on August 2020 murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is asking anyone who has information about the August 2, 2020 murder of Brandon Brewer to come forward. Brewer was found with gun...
May 23, 2024
Two people to face trial in Three Rivers human trafficking case
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two of the three suspects in a forced labor and human trafficking case in Three Rivers will stand trial. Attorney General Dana Nessel's office says 40-year-old Ikbahl Machha...
May 23, 2024 Three Rivers, MI water tower (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: KRESA hiring for new Career Connect Center
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It won't open until 2025, but the search has begun and may soon end, to find teaching staff for Kalamazoo's new Career Connect Center, being built at Sprinkle Road and I-9...
May 23, 2024 Dozens of advisory board members gathered to wrap up this school year's work on the project at The Desenberg downtown.
AUDIO: Bishop Lohse responds to Attorney General's report
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Bishop Edward Lohse of the Diocese of Kalamazoo has responded to the release of a report from Attorney General Dana Nessel into sexual abuse by priests in the diocese. He ...
May 23, 2024
Portage Public Schools won't have to make up days lost following this month's tornado
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Even though school buildings escaped damage that struck the city May 7, the Portage Public Schools canceled classes for three days as clean-up in the area was underway. Now ...
May 23, 2024 Portage Central High School (courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
