Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: State finalizes latest round of enforcement action at Graphic Packaging
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- It's official, at least for this round. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has finalized its latest round of enforcement action at Graphic Pac...
Dec 14, 2023 (Photo provided by John McNeill)
"Remembering the Children of Gaza" protest planned for Kalamazoo's Bronson Park Saturday afternoon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A group of local high school and college students are planning a protest this Saturday, they say "to commemorate the young lives taken in Gaza and to advocate for a ceasef...
Dec 14, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War)
Soup kitchen to serve free steak and lobster tail Christmas dinners in Battle Creek and Portage next week
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - God's Kitchen of Michigan, an area private non-profit hunger relief organization, will be holding a pair of free community Christmas dinners next week. The first dinner will...
Dec 13, 2023 (courtesy God's Kitchen of Michigan)
WMU trustees to consider labor agreements at special meeting Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two employee groups at Western Michigan University will be receiving pay raises if the WMU Board of Trustees approves their labor agreements when it meets in a special ses...
Dec 13, 2023 Western Michigan University's remodeled Heritage Hall (photo courtesy WMU)
AUDIO: MDOT signs along I-94 upgraded for graphics
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The message boards along Interstate 94 in southwest Michigan now have upgrades that will allow the Michigan Department of Transportation to use special graphics to warn dr...
Dec 13, 2023
AUDIO: Kalamazoo public safety chief frustrated by city's murders
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's Department of Public Safety chief is frustrated, but says their efforts to reduce the murder rate in Kalamazoo are working, despite this year's record homicide...
Dec 13, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Dave Boysen at the City Commission meeting May 1, 2023 (courtesy John McNeill)
Shots fired in Comstock High School parking lot
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Comstock Public Schools officials say shots were fired in the high school parking lot last night during what they are calling an altercation at the Kalamazoo Count...
Dec 13, 2023 (courtesy Comstock Public Schools)
YWCA Kalamazoo selects new Chief Executive Officer
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Following a nationwide search, YWCA Kalamazoo has selected Susan Rosas as its new Chief Executive Officer. Rosas takes over in January 2024 from interim CEO Lisa Rodriguez...
Dec 12, 2023 Maryland GovPics / CC
Woman rescued from apartment fire on Sunday morning in BC
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Battle Creek Fire Department says they had to respond to an apartment fire Sunday morning on South 22nd Street where a woman was trapped inside of her apartment and ...
Dec 12, 2023 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
AUDIO: What will become of former courthouses?
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Now that the new Judge Charles A. Pratt Justice Center is open in downtown Kalamazoo, what is going to happen to the two courthouses that have been vacated? Local develop...
Dec 12, 2023
