Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to look at using housing millage to extend voucher program
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board will consider dipping into the housing millage to extend a housing voucher program that has been put in jeopardy by the federal government. Fund...
Jan 19, 2026
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission to consider rezoning 19 acres next to Asylum Lake Preserve
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - When the Kalamazoo city commission considers the highly controversial plans to rezone land near Asylum Lake for a car wash next Monday, fur may fly, but it will the the fa...
Jan 19, 2026
Juvenile pedestrian sustains serious injuries in hit-and-run accident
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A teenager was seriously injured after being struck in a hit-and-run accident in Kalamazoo County's Comstock Township Saturday evening. The accident happened just ...
Jan 17, 2026 72soul / Depositphotos.com
God's Kitchen of Michigan to celebrate milestone on MLK Jr. Day, kick-off $15-million capital campaign
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As part of their Free Martin Luther King Jr. Soul Food Dinner Monday, God's Kitchen of Michigan will celebrate its 15th anniversary and announce a $15-million capital camp...
Jan 17, 2026
KVET investigation yields fentanyl, firearms, and drug manufacturing evidence
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 26-year-old Kalamazoo man was arrested and police say they have another suspect after members of the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and Crime Reduction Team executed ...
Jan 16, 2026
WMU, Kalamazoo County explore transitioning management of Asylum Lake Preserve from university to county
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo County officials say they are exploring a proposal that would transition management of the Asylum Lake Preserve to the county. Th...
Jan 16, 2026 Image from Asylum Lake Preserve's Facebook page.
St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office investigating two deadly crashes
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 20-year-old woman has died after she was involved in a crash Wednesday evening in Fabius Township. The St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office says they were dispatch...
Jan 16, 2026 Van/bicycle accident kills woman (Photo by John McNeil)
Warming shelters available in Kalamazoo area
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County residents and others in southwest Michigan are bracing for more snow and then extreme Arctic temperatures arriving this weekend. Snow is expected through ...
Jan 16, 2026 Warming shelter - Courtesy City of Kalamazoo
Whitmer calls for lawmakers to approve budget by June 30
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer does not want a repeat of 2025 when it took lawmakers until October 7th to get her an $81-billion Fiscal Year 2026 budget to sign. Whitmer said at ...
Jan 16, 2026
Suspect charged with Open Murder in domestic violence case
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An elderly Kalamazoo woman is dead in a case of what the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety calls elevated domestic violence. KDPS officers responded to an apartment co...
Jan 15, 2026 Murder suspect Jose Louies Mata (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
