Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Planned Parenthood of Michigan adds vasectomy service in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Planned Parenthood of Michigan is adding vasectomy services at its location in Grand Rapids. The pilot program will be expanded to other health centers statewide throug...
Jan 22, 2026 Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo (Photo by John McNeil)
Kalamazoo County could upgrade sheriff's office, jail
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County's board of commissioners is looking into 11 recommended projects as part of their master plan update. Among the work would be upgrading the office of the ...
Jan 22, 2026 Kalamazoo County Jail (photo by John McNeil)
Kalamazoo County board sets aside $850,000 for two major housing developments
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners have set aside $850,000 to help fund two major new housing developments that will create 156 new workforce housing units on the south side o...
Jan 22, 2026 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Station #1. Photo from Google Maps
Corewell Health to expand Butterworth Hospital campus
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Corewell Health's Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids will be growing. In the next five years, the healthcare system says it will build a new 621,000 square foot facil...
Jan 22, 2026 Corewell Health Butterworth. Courtesy, Corewell Health Butterworth.
AUDIO: County tapping into Housing for All millage to address federal funding cut
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Housing for All millage fund has been tapped again to address the housing shortage in Kalamazoo County, and to bail out dozens of vulnerable residents who depend on fe...
Jan 22, 2026
Work on schedule for Kalamazoo youth sports facility
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Contrary to what you may have heard on some news reports, work on Kalamazoo's new west side youth sports facility is proceeding on schedule, despite losing a request for a...
Jan 21, 2026
Republican gubernatorial candidate calls for one year moratorium on data centers
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard is calling for a one-year moratorium on data centers and for lawmakers to end tax breaks for them. The former state House Spea...
Jan 21, 2026
AUDIO: Kalamazoo weather to get worse this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's been a miserable couple of days in Kalamazoo, it won't be any better this morning, and possibly could get even worse this weekend. While you were warm and snug in you...
Jan 21, 2026 Weather changes in the future of West Michigan over the next few days (Courtesy AAA Michigan)
Climax-Scotts Community Schools: High school AD created toxic environment
CLIMAX, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Climax-Scotts Community Schools board of education has found Climax-Scotts High School athletic director and head football coach Tyler Langs created a "toxic environment....
Jan 21, 2026
Kalamazoo County, other agencies working to help homeless survive cold
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Local officials are doing what they can, more than has ever been done before, as they try to help the homeless survive what has been a colder winter this year in Kalamazoo...
Jan 21, 2026 Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners member Jen Strebs (courtesy John McNeill)
