Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
City of Battle Creek to use drone to check out possible construction sites
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The City of Battle Creek says it's Public Works team will start using a small drone over roads on Friday where they are proposing construction this year. The drones will...
Mar 15, 2024 Courtesy City of Battle Creek
Kalamazoo man jailed after high speed chase in Branch County
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been charged following a high speed chase with the Michigan State Police in Branch County last Saturday. 27-year-old Darqareion Damont Mills was formal...
Mar 15, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Firekeepers announces $6.2 million contribution to local revenue sharing board
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP), owners of FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, announced on Thursday that over $6-point-2 million will be goin...
Mar 15, 2024 Courtesy Firekeepers Casino and Hotel Facebook page
The case of a cottage in Kalamazoo County's Prairie View Park headed to the Michigan Court of Appeals
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The dispute over a land-locked cottage that sits inside the Kalamazoo County's Prairie View Park is not over. The Michigan Court of Appeals this month granted an applicati...
Mar 15, 2024 The property in dispute is only a small part of the total parcel, but the family had to be issued keys to the park to have access to the Cottage. That created liability issues for the County. (Map image provided by John McNeill)
AUDIO: Four years later, WMU professor says high school age students might have been affected most by pandemic
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This week marks the marks four-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. Among other things, it began a cascade of school and...
Mar 15, 2024 Western Michigan University professor Dr. Regena Fails Nelson (courtesy WMU)
Body pulled from Kalamazoo River Monday identified as Paw Paw man
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The body of a man recovered from the Kalamazoo River Monday afternoon has now been identified. Investigators say they are still looking into the circumstances sur...
Mar 14, 2024 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Single vehicle crash in Comstock Township kills one
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A single vehicle accident late Thursday morning claimed the life of a 61-year-old man. Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the vicinity of No...
Mar 14, 2024 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
USDA announces millions for water and sewer improvements in southwest Michigan
ALBION, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Six rural communities across Michigan, including one in Calhoun County and three in St. Joseph County are getting millions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Mar 14, 2024 Steve Johnson / CC
AUDIO: Prosecutors asking for more money from lawmakers for staff shortage
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan is urging state lawmakers to give them $230-million to help get rid of what they are calling a "desperate shortage" of pr...
Mar 14, 2024
Four arrested in Kalamazoo with drugs, guns
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four people have been arrested in Kalamazoo this week after the driver of a vehicle crashed into two Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team vehicles on West Main Street. The of...
Mar 14, 2024 Ken Hawkins / CC
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