Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's an old joke for parents to tell their kids that they had to walk uphill both ways to and from school when they were young. Something like that is happening in Kalamaz...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Darrin Slade is pretty pumped up about the district's latest graduation rates, which have just been reported by the state Departmen...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 24-year-old man and his 16-year-old sister are hospitalized with injuries after they were both injured in a shooting just before 11 p.m. Wednesday in Kalamazoo's Knollwo...

JOHNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Barry County Sheriff's Office says a 54-year-old Battle Creek man has died in a crash south of Dowling on M-37 yesterday. They say the driver was southbound o...

MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Eastbound and westbound I-94 at Marshall will be closed this weekend as crews demolish the M-96 (Michigan Avenue) bridge over I-94 as part of the Marshall Modernization Pro...

BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is receiving a $50,000 grant from Walbridge that will be used to purchase 22 Stryker Lifepak CR2 Automated External Defibrillators, ...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's board of directors has appointed Amy Williams as their new president and CEO. She is coming to Kalamazoo from Savannah, Georgia where sh...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Longtime west Michigan TV meteorologist Terri DeBoer is running for Congress. DeBoer filed paperwork as a Republican challenging incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Hill...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Northbound US-131 has reopened in Grand Rapids after a semi crash near Ann Street just before noon Wednesday shut it down until 3 p.m. Michigan State Police say the sem...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Parking in downtown Kalamazoo is changing in April. It will cost $2 an hour for on-street parking in the central core of the city, including along the Kalamazoo Mall, $1.5...