Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Changes coming to busy Angling Road and Oakland Drive intersection
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Changes are coming to a busy intersection in the City of Kalamazoo. Thursday night the city's zoning board of appeals approved plans for the project, which will see the in...
Mar 15, 2024 (courtesy Google Maps)
Calhoun County Road Department says R Drive South work getting ready to start
ATHENS TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Road Department says construction will begin in about two weeks on R Drive South in Athens Township from the West County Line to 1 1/2 Mile Road. T...
Mar 15, 2024 Courtesy Calhoun County Road Department
AUDIO: 22nd annual St. Patrick's Day Parade is Saturday in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's 22nd annual St. Patrick's Day Parade will be held Saturday morning. It begins at 11 a.m. and has a short route according to the Irish-American Club's Margaret ...
Mar 15, 2024 Marchers in the 2019 Kalamazoo St. Patrick's Day Parade (courtesy of the Irish American Club of Kalamazoo)
Parole absconder arrested in Three Rivers
THREE RIVERS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three Rivers police and the Michigan State Police Fifth District Fugitive Team have arrested a 44-year-old Three Rivers man and made a drug bust. MSP troopers saw him e...
Mar 15, 2024
City of Battle Creek to use drone to check out possible construction sites
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The City of Battle Creek says it's Public Works team will start using a small drone over roads on Friday where they are proposing construction this year. The drones will...
Mar 15, 2024 Courtesy City of Battle Creek
Kalamazoo man jailed after high speed chase in Branch County
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been charged following a high speed chase with the Michigan State Police in Branch County last Saturday. 27-year-old Darqareion Damont Mills was formal...
Mar 15, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Firekeepers announces $6.2 million contribution to local revenue sharing board
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP), owners of FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, announced on Thursday that over $6-point-2 million will be goin...
Mar 15, 2024 Courtesy Firekeepers Casino and Hotel Facebook page
The case of a cottage in Kalamazoo County's Prairie View Park headed to the Michigan Court of Appeals
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The dispute over a land-locked cottage that sits inside the Kalamazoo County's Prairie View Park is not over. The Michigan Court of Appeals this month granted an applicati...
Mar 15, 2024 The property in dispute is only a small part of the total parcel, but the family had to be issued keys to the park to have access to the Cottage. That created liability issues for the County. (Map image provided by John McNeill)
AUDIO: Four years later, WMU professor says high school age students might have been affected most by pandemic
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This week marks the marks four-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. Among other things, it began a cascade of school and...
Mar 15, 2024 Western Michigan University professor Dr. Regena Fails Nelson (courtesy WMU)
Body pulled from Kalamazoo River Monday identified as Paw Paw man
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The body of a man recovered from the Kalamazoo River Monday afternoon has now been identified. Investigators say they are still looking into the circumstances sur...
Mar 14, 2024 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
