Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo County commissioner becomes the latest to announce run for 40th House District seat
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There are now at least two Democrats vying for the Michigan House of Representatives seat currently held by Kalamazoo's Christine Morse. Texas Township firefighter, EMT, a...
Feb 22, 2024 (courtesy Abby Wheeler for State Rep)
Kalamazoo man convicted of shooting to death another man during a shoe purchase set up on Facebook
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been convicted of fatally shooting another man he was meeting to sell shoes to in December 2022. Jalani Darshawn Nowling was convicted last week of was...
Feb 21, 2024 A mugshot of Jalani Nowling (courtesy Kalamazoo County Jail)
AUDIO: Former Congressman Upton discusses No Labels presidential work
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Congressman Fred Upton is continuing to be involved with the No Labels movement as they seek to find a Republican presidential candidate and a Democratic vice preside...
Feb 21, 2024 Congressman Fred Upton, with Keven Trayer from Michiana Area Association of Postal Supervisors at his office in Kalamazoo Nov. 7, 2022 (courtesy John McNeill)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board discusses affordable housing issues
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Protesters battered Kalamazoo city commissioners over how they aren't spending enough to help the homeless Monday night and Tuesday night, Kalamazoo County commissioners l...
Feb 21, 2024 Photo from John McNeill.
AUDIO: Portage residents blast city council for not calling for ceasefire in Gaza
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Accusations and threats are being exchanged between the Portage City Council and advocates for a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. About a dozen speakers appeared ...
Feb 21, 2024 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
WMU's Dunbar Hall set to reopen next month after $42 million renovation and expansion
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - When Western Michigan University students and staff return from Spring Break March 11, they will get their first to see the newly renovated Dunbar Hall on campus. After th...
Feb 21, 2024 Dunbar Hall under renovation at Western Michigan University (courtesy WMU webcam)
With clean-up completed, EPA looking to remove Kalamazoo site from its Superfund list
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Clean-up work for two contaminated sites on six acres along Davis Creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River, has been completed. The Environmental Protection Agency made...
Feb 20, 2024 EPA sign board showing superfund site (Image courtesy of EPA)
Body found in Kalamazoo River, may be motorcyclist who fled from police January 1
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety believes they have recovered the body of a man who abandoned his motorcycle and ran into the Kalamazoo River to evade police last...
Feb 20, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
UPDATE: Man's body found on Lake Michigan shoreline Identified
GANGES TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO-WHTC) - The body of a man washed up on the Lake Michigan shoreline north of South Haven, with authorities treating it as a suspicious death, has now been identified. Deputies...
Feb 20, 2024 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
New interim dean named for WMed as Termuhlen departs
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Robert G. Sawyer as interim dean of the medical school effective...
Feb 20, 2024 (courtesy WMed)
