Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Hopkins Man Sentenced in July Cockfighting Ring Arrest
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Apr. 21, 2026) - A 37-year-old Hopkins man was sentenced on charges stemming from a cockfighting ring that was busted last summer. On Monday, Allegan County Circuit Court Judg...
Apr 21, 2026 Edin Dilson Rodas (courtesy Allegan County Sheriff's Office)
Otsego woman wins $1-million at Michigan Lottery Millionaire Maker Second Chance event
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Lottery says 58-year-old Michelle Roemer of Otsego has won $1 million at their Millionaire Maker Second Chance event on April 10th. She earned entries by scanni...
Apr 20, 2026
Kalamazoo under local state of emergency, state emergency declaration
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo is under a local state of emergency and a state emergency declaration as of Friday due to last week's storms and high groundwater levels and high lev...
Apr 20, 2026
Two Battle Creek teenagers injured in shooting
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Shots being fired around 4:30 Sunday morning near North McKinley Avenue and NE Capital Avenue in Battle Creek resulted in two teenagers being injured. A 17-year-old gir...
Apr 20, 2026
Kalamazoo County board to consider millage request for child care
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board has been discussing the sorry state of child care locally for a few months, pushed by advocacy groups to do something to improve access in Kalam...
Apr 20, 2026 stuartmiles / Depositphotos.com
Michigan's average gas price down 15¢
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's 15 cheaper per gallon to buy gas in Michigan than last week. Triple-A Michigan says the average price is down to $3.83, which is 9 less than last month but still 67 mo...
Apr 20, 2026
Man arrested for having guns as a felon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team has arrested a 21-year-old Kalamazoo man on illegal weapons charges. The man was arrested Thursday after being found with a loaded gu...
Apr 20, 2026
Kalamazoo city commission being asked for junkyard fire report
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo's Environmental Concerns Committee wants the city commission to authorize a report on a junkyard fire earlier this month that released potentially ha...
Apr 20, 2026
AG Nessel seeking 61% cut in Consumers Energy rate hike request
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wants regulators to cut the rate hike request of Consumers Energy by 61%. She filed testimony to the Michigan Public Service Commission...
Apr 17, 2026
Poll shows dead heats in Democratic U.S. Senate, Republican gubernatorial primaries
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new poll finds former Detroit public health official Abdul El-Sayed and state Senator Mallory McMorrow in a statistical dead heat in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Se...
Apr 17, 2026 chrisdorney / Depositphotos.com
