Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Schools increasing staff to support social and mental wellbeing
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Schools will be beefing up their efforts to look after the social and mental wellbeing of students this fall, thanks to additional state funding, grant money, an...
Aug 24, 2023
Portage Zhang Senior Center opens cooling center for Wednesday, Thursday heatwave
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A cooling center is open at the Portage Zhang Senior Center, 203 East Centre Avenue, from 7 a.m to 9 p.m. (unless conditions warrant an earlier closure or extension) Wednesd...
Aug 23, 2023 An architect's rendering of the Charles and Lynn Zhang Portage Community Senior Center (courtesy of AVB Inc)
Boil water advisory for Portage neighborhood following water main break
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A portion of a Portage neighborhood now under a boil water advisory. The City of Portage issuing the advisory on Wednesday, August 23 following a water main break that occur...
Aug 23, 2023 (Boil advisory map provided by the City of Portage)
CCSD warn residents about fraudulent phone calls
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is warning residents about an individual who is contacting residents and identifying himself as "Lt. Brandon Jenkins" from the Sherif...
Aug 23, 2023 Alachua County / CC
New hub for WMU to make college life easier to navigate for first-time students
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There will be a new feature on the campus of Western Michigan University this fall. WMU officials say the new Student Success Hub should make being a student easier by ser...
Aug 23, 2023 (Photo by John McNeil).
Thousands pour in to build K9 memorial for White Pigeon Police Department
WHITE PIGEON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - More than $3,000 has been donated to a GoFundMe to support the build of a memorial for the fallen K9 officers of the White Pigeon Police Department. The fundraiser says...
Aug 23, 2023
Second detection this year of West Nile Virus reported in Kalamazoo County
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There's been another detection of West Nile Virus in Kalamazoo County. This is according to the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department's Environmental...
Aug 23, 2023 Enrique Dans / CC
KDPS looking into "suspicious death" discovered Tuesday evening
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Few details are being released, but the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is investigating what's described as a "suspicious death" which was discovered Tuesday evenin...
Aug 23, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety . (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Motorist critically hurt in Otsego crash
OTSEGO TWP., MI (WKZO-AM/FM, WHTC-AM/FM) - A 64-year-old man was critically hurt in a head-on crash involving a sedan and a semi on M-89 near Otsego on Tuesday night, Aug. 22, 2023). No names were giv...
Aug 23, 2023
Motorcyclist suffers serious injuries in St. Joseph County crash
FABIUS TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The driver of a motorcycle suffered what were described as serious injuries Tuesday afternoon in a St. Joseph County crash. Michigan State Police Troopers responded t...
Aug 22, 2023
