Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Gas prices up 14-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Drivers are paying 14-cents more a gallon to fill the gas tank today than last Monday. Triple-A Michigan says the statewide average price for gas is $3.10, 15-cents more th...
Nov 10, 2025
Michigan's U.S. senators vote no on bill to end shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin both voted against the bill that passed to start reopening the federal government. Peters says he voted against th...
Nov 10, 2025 Ron Cogswell / CC
Southbound US-131 reopens in Allegan, Kent counties
DORR TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Nearly a week after being closed when a semi hit the 146th Avenue overpass, southbound US-131 is back open in Kent and Allegan counties. The Michigan Department of Tra...
Nov 10, 2025
AUDIO: Not everyone happy with proposed Oshtemo Township housing project
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new housing project has been proposed in Oshtemo Township, which would normally be an occasion for celebration during this housing crisis, but not everyone is happy with...
Nov 10, 2025 Kalamazoo County Government logo
Suspect in custody after Comstock Township murder
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Few details have been released in a shooting death in Kalamazoo County's Comstock late Friday night. Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority received 911 ...
Nov 08, 2025
New southbound off ramp for the U.S. 131 Business Loop unveiled
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - They snipped the ribbon Friday morning on the new southbound off ramp for the U.S. 131 Business Loop. The $24 million dollar project makes the intersection, which had only...
Nov 07, 2025 (photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Kalamazoo Planning Commission denies rezoning on Stadium Drive near Asylum Lake Preserve
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Planning Commission has unanimously denied the request from Drive & Shine to rezone 4301 Stadium Drive for a car wash. The property is near the intersect...
Nov 07, 2025 Image from Asylum Lake Preserve's Facebook page.
Kalamazoo men sentenced to probation in human trafficking case
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Kalamazoo men will serve probation for the next three years after they were initially charged with human trafficking and unlawful imprisonment in Grand Rapids. Deva...
Nov 07, 2025
AUDIO: Parchment's second annual Veterans Day ceremony to be held November 11 at 11 a.m.
PARCHMENT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Veterans Day ceremony will be held in Parchment on Tuesday, November 11 at 11 a.m. Parchment United Methodist Church pastor Joe Shaler is putting it on for the second st...
Nov 07, 2025 City of Parchment welcome sign - Brandon James/WKZO
AUDIO: New El Sol Elementary will expand to include 6th through 8th grades
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Public Schools board has decided to not only give El Sol Elementary a new home in Kalamazoo Township, but expand the program to include middle schoolers. Las...
Nov 07, 2025
