Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Former WMU hockey player pleads guilty to lesser offense after originally being charged with sexual assault
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Western Michigan University hockey captain Paul Washe has pled guilty to seduction after being charged with criminal sexual conduct with force or coercion. Washe wa...
Aug 23, 2022 Best Law
Portage Parks & Recreation to host final Friday at the Flats and Movies in the Park for summer 2022
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Portage Parks & Recreation will host the final Friday at the Flats and Movies in the Park of the 2022 summer season this Friday, August 26. Admission to both events is ...
Aug 22, 2022 Celery Flats Historical Area in Portage, MI. (Photo by Will Kriss).
Urban Alliance in Kalamazoo to host community open house
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Officials at Urban Alliance are inviting the public to attend the event, being held on Wednesday, August 24, from 4 to 6 p.m. at 1009 East Stockbridge Avenue in Kalamazoo...
Aug 22, 2022
Women's Equality Day celebration Sunday, August 28, at Bronson Park
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The League of Women Voters of Kalamazoo Area in partnership with the YWCA is set to hold a gathering on Sunday, August 28, to celebrate Women's Equality Day. Organizers s...
Aug 22, 2022
Beaty and VanderWiere selected as finalists for Battle Creek Fire Chief, community event on Wednesday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Bill Beaty and Jeff VanderWiere are the two finalists to become Battle Creek's next fire chief. Beaty is the Deputy Chief for the all-volunteer Divernon, Illinois Fire P...
Aug 22, 2022 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
11-year-old boy drowns in private pond near Vicksburg Sunday
VICKBUERG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office is investigating the drowning death of an 11-year-old boy in a private pond Sunday afternoon. According to the Sheriff's Office, it h...
Aug 22, 2022 (Photo by John McNeil).
Mill and fill work underway on Oakland Drive in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The City of Portage Street Mill and Fill Program consists of major maintenance to selected streets to enhance structural integrity and ride quality and prolong the street's...
Aug 21, 2022 I 94 road project completion date revised (Photo by John McNeil)
Alcohol not suspect in 3-vehicle crash in Cass County
VOLINIA TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Cass County Sheriff's Office says that five people were injured in a three-vehicle-crash on Saturday, August 20, in Cass County. Sheriff's Deputies responded t...
Aug 21, 2022 Photo provided by the Cass County Sheriff's Office.
1 dead after single-vehicle crash in Van Buren County
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Van Buren County Sheriff's Office says speed appears to be a factor in a single vehicle crash that killed a man on Saturday, August 20. Authorities say the cr...
Aug 21, 2022 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
Grand Rapids manufacturer stepping up efforts to help combat monkeypox
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Grand Rapids pharmaceutical manufacturer is jumping in to help mitigate the monkey pox outbreak. Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing at 140 Front Avenue Southwest in G...
Aug 21, 2022 NIAID / CC
