Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Children who died in Kalamazoo fire identified
Kalamazoo Public Safety says four-year-old Evelyn Blackport and seven-year-old Elliot Blackport were killed in a house fire in the city's Edison neighborhood early Monday morning. The fire started aro...
Oct 09, 2023 liz west / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo College gets largest private donation in history
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo College has received its largest private donation in its history. President Jorge Gonzalez made the announcement Monday on campus. The donation puts K-College's ...
Oct 09, 2023 Kalamazoo College President Jorge Gonzalez
Traffic signal maintenance turns intersection of Helmer and Beckley Roads into four way stop for this week
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A busy Battle Creek intersection will turn into a four way stop this week. Crews for the City of Battle Creek are scheduled to to temporarily remove the traffic signals ...
Oct 09, 2023 Courtesy City of Battle Creek
Michigan State Police investigating St. Joseph County gun theft
LEONIDAS TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Michigan State Police troopers from the Marshall post are investigating the larceny of a firearm that took place in St. Joseph County during the past week. They say...
Oct 09, 2023
Kalamazoo fire kills two children early Monday morning
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two children have been found dead in a home in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood this morning. The fire at the home started around 2:00 a.m. Monday on East Stockbridge Avenu...
Oct 09, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety graphic (courtesy of KDPS)
AUDIO: Salvation Army of Kalamazoo holding toy drive this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Salvation Army of Kalamazoo is holding their annual "Stuffing the Van" toy drive this Saturday at Blain's Farm and Fleet in Portage. Development director Steve Dykstra...
Oct 09, 2023
AUDIO: KPS encouraging parents to start using online portal
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Parents play a key role in the education of their children, and that's one reason Kalamazoo Public Schools are urging them to start using their "Online Parental Portal." I...
Oct 09, 2023 Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Education meeting April 24, 2023 (courtesy John McNeill)
ASL interpreter added for four Miller Auditorium shows
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There will be an American Sign Language interpreter at Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo for the Zhang Broadway in West Michigan Series. The ASL interpreter had been availabl...
Oct 06, 2023
Police investigating WMU student's death last weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is looking into the death of a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student last weekend. James Wettlaufer died last Saturday ...
Oct 06, 2023
AUDIO: EGLE holds Graphic Packaging town hall
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A public hearing on a consent agreement for modifications at Graphic Packaging turned into a protest against the paperboard recycler and state environment officials last n...
Oct 06, 2023
