Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Portage City Manager presents budget proposal
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage City Manager Patrick McGinnis presented his council with his proposed budget for the next Fiscal year, sending it to them just before last night's regular meeting. H...
Apr 10, 2024 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Kalamazoo Public Library looks to fill vacancy on board
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Public Library Board of Trustees is seeking applicants interested in filling a vacancy on the board. The vacancy was created by the recent resignation of tru...
Apr 10, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Public Library)
Road Commission of Kalamazoo County honored for projects, communication
LANSING, MI - The Road Commission of Kalamazoo County (RCKC), which recently moved into an expanded facility earlier this year, has now been honored with three statewide IMPRESS Awards and a People's ...
Apr 10, 2024 (courtesy County Road Association of Michigan)
Motorcyclist critically injured in crash on South Sprinkle Road
BRADY TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A motorcyclist was critically injured Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle that apparently turned in front of him. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office ...
Apr 09, 2024
Kalamazoo man in critical condition after being hit by vehicle on South Westnedge Avenue
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage Public Safety officers say a 29-year-old Kalamazoo man is hospitalized in critical condition after he was hit by a Jeep around 6:15 last evening. It happened near th...
Apr 09, 2024 (photo by John McNeil)
City of Kalamazoo hydrant flushing begins next weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Kalamazoo Public Services Department will begin hydrant flushing this Sunday, April 14 and will continue through Monday, April 22. Most flushing will take plac...
Apr 09, 2024 Fire hydrant (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
DNR to hold prescribed burn Tuesday at Gourdneck Prairie in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is planning what they call a prescribed burn Tuesday, April 9 in the Gourdneck Prairie in the southwest portion of the City of P...
Apr 08, 2024
Final year of US-131 rebuilding in Kalamazoo County begins next Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A major multi-year roadway project in Kalamazoo County resumes next Monday. Work on the second year of the two-year, $51 million project to rebuild and repave 13.4 miles o...
Apr 08, 2024
Work to rebuild US-131 bridges over KL Avenue begins April 15 in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM)- While reconstruction work resumes on US 131 itself next week, work will also begin to rebuild the northbound and southbound US-131 bridges over KL Avenue and the Amtrak rai...
Apr 08, 2024 Biker loads his bike onto the Amtrak train. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Calhoun County free recycling event set for Bailey Park on April 22
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Office of Community Development has announced there will be a free recycling event on April 22 at Bailey Park in Battle Creek from noon until 5:30 p.m...
Apr 08, 2024 Courtesy Calhoun County Government
