Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Portage City Council thanks people for tornado recovery efforts
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Last night was a night for the Portage City Council to express their appreciation for all the help they have gotten since last week's tornado. Council members say assistance...
May 15, 2024 Lori Higgins took this picture of a tornado touching down on Prairie Corners Road, just south of Mendon. Courtesy Clayton Lyczynski II - Community Connector Facebook page
Kalamazoo will get special air quality monitoring from the state next year
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Kalamazoo is one of the locations in Michigan that will get special or enhanced air quality monitoring next year as part of the state's plans to track airborne...
May 15, 2024 (courtesy Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy)
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport to hold emergency preparedness exercise Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport will conduct a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise at 9:00 a.m. this Thursday. Airport officials say the exercise w...
May 14, 2024 Image from Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport's Facebook page.
Consumers Energy funnels $77,500 to non-profits to help with tornado relief efforts
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Consumers Energy Foundation announced Tuesday it's making $77,500 in grants available to help six Southwest Michigan nonprofits provide essential services to residents a...
May 14, 2024 Storm damage from a tornado near Sherwood, Michigan May 7, 2024 (photo courtesy of Raymond Wright)
Police arrest 16-year-old from Kalamazoo in armed robbery at Parchment gas station
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 16-year-old from Kalamazoo has been arrested and lodged at the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home for robbing a gas station in Parchment early last Friday morning. ...
May 14, 2024 (courtesy Township of Kalamazoo Police Department)
Portage closing Oakland Drive Compost Facility for the public
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is closing its Oakland Drive Compost Facility to the public because it is nearly full. It has been open to commercial tree removal companies since last w...
May 14, 2024 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
AUDIO: God's Kitchen of Michigan launches fundraiser for new delivery van
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - God's Kitchen of Michigan and the Broncos Kitchen Foundation are raising money through GoFundMe to pay for a new delivery van. Reverend William Stein joined WKZO Mornings ...
May 14, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo helping Portage recover from EF-2 tornado
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo has been one of the governmental agencies sending help to Portage, following the EF-2 tornado that struck a week ago. Public Works director Jim Baker...
May 14, 2024 Lori Higgins took this picture of a tornado touching down on Prairie Corners Road, just south of Mendon. Courtesy Clayton Lyczynski II - Community Connector Facebook page
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commission approves funding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners have tentatively agreed to fund a controversial reproductive health program, and another YWCA effort that helps human trafficking victims. The...
May 14, 2024
Woman charged in Otsego stabbing death
OTSEGO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Otsego police have arrested 24-year-old Karleigh Strickfaden for the stabbing death of 51-year-old Leonard Connor. Connor was killed Friday evening at a home in the 400 block...
May 14, 2024
