Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Portage may change council rules
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Portage City Council will consider changes in their rules tonight that at least one resident says would make it tougher for citizens to participate in their local gover...
Jan 23, 2024 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo counting the homeless
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The recent subzero weather has once again raised concerns about the safety of Kalamazoo's unhoused population. The city's annual "Point in Time" head count of the homeles...
Jan 23, 2024 City of Kalamazoo commissioner Don Cooney (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
Kalamazoo area police agencies holding forum Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Six Kalamazoo area police agencies will hold their first ever Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, or ALPACT, report card forum on Thursday. It will be a...
Jan 23, 2024 Portage Public Safety continues investigation into fatal accident Sunday morning.
Apartment fire in Three Rivers displaces 14 families
THREE RIVERS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A fire in a Three Rivers apartment has forced the displacement of 14 families. The fire began around 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the building on South Erie Street near Hill St...
Jan 23, 2024 Three Rivers, Michigan - Google Street View
Van Buren County man sentenced to probation for attacking neighbor
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Van Buren County man will be on probation for three years for attacking his 79-year-old neighbor in September. Gregory Miller was sentenced to 114 days in jail as well, a...
Jan 23, 2024 Van Buren County courthouse (photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commission approves 2024 budget with a change
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The city of Kalamazoo has a budget for 2024, but after 11th hour complaints from citizens, one major funding item was yanked. A proposal to use $1.65-million in federal C...
Jan 23, 2024
New housing project with child care center opens in the Kalamazoo Northside neighborhood
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After several years of planning and months of construction, a new housing project with a child care center has opened in the Kalamazoo Northside neighborhood. Zone 32 is a...
Jan 23, 2024 Zone 32, Kalamazoo, MI (courtesy Trulia.com)
Calhoun County Sheriffs Department says deputy not calling asking for money
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Sheriffs Office says it's received reports that fraudulent calls are being made to residents in which the caller implies they are a Sheriff's Deputy...
Jan 22, 2024 Alachua County / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County Jail population down
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo County's jail population is down. It has decreased from about 370 a few months ago to a little over 300 now. One reason is because the circuit court has been ab...
Jan 22, 2024 Kalamazoo County Jail (photo by John McNeil)
Former WMU student convicted of 2021 murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Former Western Michigan University student Maliek Hargrave has been convicted of murder for killing a Portage teenager in October 2021. Hargrave was found guilty of secon...
Jan 22, 2024 Chris Potter / CC
