Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
New name, same pest: Spongy Moth outbreaks in Michigan
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Last summer you may have seen trees covered in caterpillars, with their droppings falling from the canopy, and spongy brown egg masses on every surface This has been a comm...
Jul 08, 2022 Image Credit: Karla Salp, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Bugwood.org
MDOT scheduled to start repaving M-66 in Leroy Township on Monday
LEROY TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A repaving project on M-66 in Calhoun County's Leroy Township is scheduled to start on Monday. The Michigan Department of Transportation says they will invest $828,000...
Jul 08, 2022 Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) logo. (Photo courtesy Michigan Department of Transportation).
Allegan County man to spend 50-75 years in prison for online sex crimes
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Allegan County man was sentenced Thursday to 50 to 75 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple online sex crime counts. Steven Lee Foupht was arrested November 1...
Jul 08, 2022 Steven Lee Foupht (courtesy of Allegan County Sheriff's Office)
Kalamazoo commissioners asked to approve resolution supporting "Medicare for All"
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- It wasn't on the agenda but a group called the Democratic Socialists of Southwest Michigan has been asking Kalamazoo Commissioners for weeks to approve a resolution suppo...
Jul 08, 2022 Kalamazoo City Commission meeting June 6, 2022 (photo credit: John McNeill)
Carjacking suspect in custody after being shoot during the incident
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Around 6:00 p.m. Thursday the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to the 800 block of North Rose Street for the report of a shooting. Simultaneously, a call wa...
Jul 08, 2022 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety logo
Checker cars return to Kalamazoo with 100th Anniversary of Checkers National Convention
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Checker Car Club of America 100th anniversary national convention will be held from August 3 through August 6. Checker vehicles were built in Kalamazoo from 1923 to 1...
Jul 07, 2022 Photo provided by the Gilmore Care Museum, Hickory Corners, MI.
CRA takes disciplinary action against licensees in Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, and Bangor
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Cannabis Regulatory Agency has taken disciplinary action against three marijuana licensees in Michigan, to include Southwest Michigan entities in Bangor and Kalamazoo...
Jul 07, 2022
League of Women Voters of the Kalamazoo Area adopts Climate Emergency Resolution
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The League of Women Voters of the Kalamazoo Area has adopted a Climate Emergency Resolution. The resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors at t...
Jul 07, 2022
Cassopolis project to compete for statewide community excellence award among three other finalists
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Four finalists have been selected for the statewide Community Excellence Award, which is known as the most prestigious Michigan Municipal League community honor. And the ...
Jul 07, 2022 Image from Village of Cassopolis Facebook page.
Grand Opening of Children's Nature Playscape to take place July 15
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- After four months of construction, a nature-themed playground will soon be open to children. City officials are getting set to hold a grand opening ceremony for the Child...
Jul 07, 2022 The site of the future Children's Nature Playscape in downtown Kalamazoo.
