Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
City Commission to look at revisions to marijuana "social equity policy" in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Cty Commission Monday will hear about possible changes on how it utilizes a portion of state cannabis tax payments for communities that were negatively impac...
Jul 18, 2026 Paige Filler / CC
Battle Creek Police investigating reported attempted kidnapping
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Battle Creek Police Department sats its investigating a reported attempted kidnapping that occurred Friday morning near North Wabash Avenue and Capital Avenue NE. A...
Jul 18, 2026 (courtesy Battle Creek Police Department)
Several Portage events tonight canceled due to Air Quality Alert
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Air Quality Alert and smokey air conditions across Michigan are forcng the cancelation of several events in Portage Friday. The monthly Friday at the Flats July 17 has b...
Jul 17, 2026
Kalamazoo County deputy shot, injured by larceny suspect
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office deputy is recovering at a local hospital after being shot during a struggle with a larceny suspect Friday morning. The sheriff's office...
Jul 17, 2026 (Photo by John McNeil).
Michigan's June unemployment rate down a tenth of a percent
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's unemployment rate for June fell by one-tenth-of-a-percent from May to 5%. The rate has been between 4.9% and 5.1% since June 2025. The Department of Technology, M...
Jul 17, 2026
President Trump calling for investigation into allegations of 2020 Michigan voter fraud
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - President Donald Trump is calling for an investigation into alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election in Michigan that he lost to President Joe Biden. Oakland University p...
Jul 17, 2026 samael1986 / Depositphotos.com
Reward offered for information on missing Allegan County man
OTSEGO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The family of 44-year-old Nathan Dennis is offering a $2,500 reward for information that helps find him. Dennis is homeless and has not been in contact with his family or fri...
Jul 17, 2026 MSP investigating death of 2 year old in Cass County
Nessel, others call attention to coal-fired JH Campbell power plant in Kalamazoo appearance
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Environmentalists with a message came to Kalamazoo to talk about air pollution, not knowing it would be the day the state set a record for smokey air. With a grey haze han...
Jul 17, 2026
Man stabbed, killed in Oshtemo Township
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One man is dead and another is in the Kalamazoo County Jail after a stabbing just after 2 a.m. Thursday in Oshtemo Township. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office r...
Jul 17, 2026 (Photo by John McNeil).
Michigan AG files federal lawsuit against closed Portage-based Climax Solar
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a public enforcement lawsuit against Climax Solar, owner Joshua Thompson, and the financial institutions that financed people...
Jul 16, 2026 Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel
