Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Restaurant Week returns to downtown Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A showcase for local restaurants and bars in Kalamazoo is underway through next weekend. Downtown Kalamazoo Restaurant Week and the Cocktail Competition are held twice eac...
Jan 26, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Restaurant Week)
Details discussed for new downtown Kalamazoo arena
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Ground could be broken this year on a downtown Kalamazoo event center and arena that has been talked about for more than 20 years. Greenleaf Trust's Bill Johnston unveiled...
Jan 26, 2024
WMU makes Time Magazine list of Best Colleges for Future Leaders
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University has been named by Time Magazine as one of the Top 100 universities in the nation for turning out the nation's leaders. University President Edw...
Jan 25, 2024 (courtesy Time Magazine)
Woods and Liggins officially take over on WMU Board of Trustees
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees held their first meeting of the new year Thursday at the school's new Student Center and welcomed two new board members. ...
Jan 25, 2024 Western Michigan University Board of Trustees Kara Wood, Board of Trustees Chair Shelly Edgerton, James L. Liggins Jr.(courtesy John McNeill)
Shooting injures one in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- One person is hospitalized in Kalamazoo after being shot early Tuesday morning and his mother has been arrested. Kalamazoo Public Safety says she was arrested at Bronson ...
Jan 25, 2024
Shooting threat at Thornapple Kellogg High School under investigation
BARRY COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Police are investigating a shooting threat at Thornapple Kellogg High School in Barry County. The sheriff's office says the threat became known just after 9 a.m. Wedne...
Jan 25, 2024 Ken Hawkins / CC
Error in not administering test led to Phoenix Alternative High School students to not meeting state graduation requirements, despite receiving diplomas
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A former guidance counselor who reportedly forgot to administer a state required test led to more than half the graduating class at Kalamazoo's Phoenix Alternative High Sc...
Jan 25, 2024 Phoenix Alternative High School (courtesy Kalamazoo Public Schools)
Republicans rip Governor Whitmer's State of the State
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Republican lawmakers are ripping Governor Whitmer's 2024 State of the State address. House Republican Leader Matt Hall says she "played all her greatest hits. But even all ...
Jan 24, 2024
AUDIO: Governor Whitmer delivers State of the State
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer is calling for lawmakers to pass legislation to make community college tuition free for any high school graduate in the state regardless of their ...
Jan 24, 2024
Hall and Nesbitt call on Whitmer to "Focus On The Big Picture"
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Ahead of her annual State of the State address Wednesday night, House Republican Leader Matt Hall Wednesday called on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to work with Republi...
Jan 24, 2024
