Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo Vice Mayor wants to make fighting poverty in the city a priority
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In some ways, the City of Kalamazoo is a rich community, but in other ways, it's not, says Kalamazoo City Vice Mayor Don Cooney. Despite having two major hospitals, two un...
Jul 20, 2023 City of Kalamazoo commissioner Don Cooney (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
Kalamazoo Promise to host community meet & greet for new superintendent of Kalamazoo Public Schools
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Promise is set to host a community meet & greet for the new superintendent of Kalamazoo Public Schools. Organizers are inviting residents to meet the new...
Jul 19, 2023 Kalamazoo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade (courtesy KPS)
Six Kalamazoo neighborhood events planned to celebrate National Night Out on August 1
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Six events are planned this year throughout Kalamazoo's neighborhoods for National Night Out on Tuesday, August 1. Law enforcement officials call the annual event a nation...
Jul 19, 2023
Kalamazoo City Commissioner Chris Praedel announces 2023 re-election bid
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo City Commissioner Chris Praedel has launched his re-election bid to continue serving on the Kalamazoo City Commission. Praedel, 37, is serving his first-term and...
Jul 19, 2023 (Photo of Kalamazoo City Commissioner Chris Praedel provided by the committee to elect Chris Praedel Kalamazoo City Commission)
Kalamazoo man facing several charges after multi-law enforcement chase and arrest
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - More details have emerged on the Tuesday, July 18 multi-law enforcement chase of a suspect wanted on felonious assault. According to the Township of Kalamazoo Police Depar...
Jul 19, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
County approves transfer of land for proposed Event Center in downtown Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners has approved the final paperwork, green-lighting the sale of a parcel of land for the new Event Center downtown. They actually ...
Jul 19, 2023 Artist rendering of proposed sports arena and event center in downtown Kalamazoo, MI (courtesy Southwest Michigan First)
AUDIO: Residency requirements in question in reappointing member of Kalamazoo City's Investment Committee
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo City Commissioners have put a hold on reappointing a member of what they are calling the city's very successful Investment Committee, because he no longer lives ...
Jul 19, 2023 City of Kalamazoo CFO Steve Vincenzi presents a 2023 budget overview to City Commissioners
Felonious assault suspect leads law enforcement on chase, crashes into vehicle in Osthemo Township
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It was a wild afternoon for law enforcement as officers from the Township of Kalamazoo Police Department broadcasted an alert for a suspect wanted for a felonious assault ...
Jul 18, 2023 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
United Healthcare to sponsor centenarian bruncheon at Portage Zhang Senior Center in August
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - You may not realize this, but more than 100 people in Kalamazoo County are 100-years-old or above. That's according to the City of Portage who's inviting them, along with fa...
Jul 18, 2023
Boyfriend of missing Portage mother of eight requests to withdraw guilty plea
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - He pleaded guilty in a federal escape case, but now is working to reverse that plea. The boyfriend of missing Portage Mother of eight Heather Kelley on Monday requesting t...
Jul 18, 2023
