Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Gas main break causes Plainwell Community Schools to close Monday
PLAINWELL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Plainwell Community Schools will have no school today due to a gas main being hit on the corner of South Main and Starr. According to school officials, the incident has ca...
Oct 17, 2022 Plainwell Community Schools logo (courtesy of Plainwell Community Schools Facebook page)
Local school officials stress voter awareness ahead of November election.
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - School officials say do your homework before voting next month. While some candidates are spending millions on ads, most local candidates, the ones who may have the bigges...
Oct 17, 2022 Voting sign. (Photo by John McNeil)
No injuries in a fire that started in the basement of a Kalamazoo home Sunday afternoon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There were no injuries in a house fire Sunday afternoon in Kalamazoo. Around 5:30 p.m. the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to a report of a basement fire i...
Oct 17, 2022 Fire Investigation Image, copyright © Midwest Communications
Few answers as two found dead in a Battle Creek home Saturday afternoon
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two people were found dead in Battle Creek over the weekend. Police were called to a home on South Minges Road around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, where the woman and a minor ma...
Oct 17, 2022 Battle Creek Police Cruiser (photo by John McNeill).
Landmark Recovery opens largest addiction treatment facility in West Michigan
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A West Michigan drug and alcohol treatment organization is set to open up the largest commercial facility in the area. Landmark Recovery will cut the ribbon on the Lan...
Oct 16, 2022
Suspect arrested after armed robbery and fleeing on bicycle
THREE RIVERS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Three Rivers Police arrested a man who they say robbed a business with a weapon, and then fled on a bicycle. It happened around 11:10 a.m. Friday morning, October 14, ...
Oct 16, 2022 A surveillance image of a suspected armed robber of a Three Rivers business. The incident occurred on October 14, 2022. (Image provided by the Three Rivers Police Department)
Leaders from Michigan United Ways discuss federal programs and other funding with Biden Administration
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) -- Leaders from Michigan United Ways meeting with the Biden Administration in the nation's capitol at the White House last week. That meeting focused on how pandemic-rela...
Oct 16, 2022 President and CEO of United Way of South Central Michigan, Chris Sargent, one of three attendees from Michigan United Ways visit Washington D.C. to meet with the Biden Administration. (Photo from Michigan United Ways)
Two MDOT projects on I-94 in Calhoun County start on Monday
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Drivers in Calhoun County will have to be extra alert starting on Monday as a pair of Michigan Department of Transportation projects will be getting underway. Crews will beg...
Oct 15, 2022
Stargazers get two more sessions with KAS for 2022 in October
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Kalamazoo Astronomical Society is rounding out it's season by inviting the public to two more observation sessions for October 2022. The Owl Observatory is now featur...
Oct 14, 2022 Photo from the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society Facebook page.
Galesburg man found not guilty by insanity in 2021 killing of his neighbors
GALESBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Galesburg man who admitted to shooting and killing two of his neighbors at an apartment complex in the summer of 2021 has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. A...
Oct 14, 2022 William Wolfe booking photo.
