Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
City Commission gets report on expanded Kalamazoo summer parks program
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One of the strategies the City of Kalamazoo has implemented to decrease crime is to provide programs for the community's school aged children during summer break. This yea...
Sep 12, 2022 City of Kalamazoo Parks Activities Director Pete Aerts makes a presentation to the City Commission (courtesy of John McNeill)
Kalamazoo County health officials release info on tick disease report
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County health officials have released the results of a survey regarding blacklegged ticks. A total of 92 ticks were submitted to the Centers for Disease Control t...
Sep 11, 2022 NY State IPM Program at Cornell University / CC
Authorities seek help in locating missing Kalamazoo man
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The public is being asked to assist in locating a missing 20-year-old Kalamazoo man. Nathaniel Duvall Brown last contacted family and friends on Thursday, September 8th, at...
Sep 11, 2022 Photo of 20-year-old Nathaniel Duvall Brown provided by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office.
Fatal shooting in Kalamazoo under investigation
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety authorities are continuing their investigation into a fatal shooting on the city's Northside. Officers were summoned to the area of Dr...
Sep 11, 2022
Head-on crash kills one in Cass County Friday afternoon
MARCELLUS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One person was killed and another injured after a two vehicle head-on crash in Cass County Friday afternoon. Just after after 2:30 p.m., Cass County Sheriff's Office deput...
Sep 09, 2022 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
Governor Whitmer announces plan with Holtec to reopen Palisades Plant
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday, September 9, in support of Holtec International's application for a federal grant under ...
Sep 09, 2022
New WMU student center opening delayed beyond start of spring semester
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The opening of the new Western Michigan University student center is delayed again. University leaders say the opening will be delayed beyond the start of the spring seme...
Sep 09, 2022
Overheated bathroom exhaust fan likely cause of Battle Creek house fire
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A bathroom exhaust fan that overheated is be blamed as the likely cause of a house fire that caused nearly $97,000 worth of damage on Thursday morning at a home in the 3...
Sep 09, 2022 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
Fatal car-pedestrian accident under investigation by Marshall Police
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Marshall Police continue to investigate a fatal car-pedestrian accident that took place on Wednesday morning. Police say police, fire and first responders were dispatched ar...
Sep 09, 2022 Courtesy Marshall Police Department Facebook page
Gas line rupture, fire, causes evacuations in Kalamazoo Thursday afternoon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The evacuations are over in Kalamazoo after a gas line ruptured and then caught fire yesterday. Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officials say a crew hit the four-inc...
Sep 09, 2022 Arseni Mourzenko
