Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners working on priorities to spend $40 million left in ARPA dollars
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners is anxious to start pumping federal COVID-19 relief dollars into the community, but they not an easy job, and it's about to get...
May 18, 2022 EpicTop10.com / CC
Battle Creek man wins over $3 million in Lotto 47, bought winning ticket in Sturgis
LANSING, MI (WTVB/WNWN) - A Battle Creek man has won a $3.39 million Lotto 47 jackpot from the Michigan Lottery. The lucky player, who chose to remain anonymous, matched the winning Lotto 47 numbers d...
May 18, 2022 Courtesy Michigan Lottery
UPDATE: Arraignment for barricaded gunman from Barry County campground incident
HASTINGS, MI (WKZO-AM/FM, May 17) - A 24-year-old Battle Creek man has been arraigned on charges stemming from a tense situation north of Hastings on Monday afternoon that was settled peacefully. Acco...
May 17, 2022 Michigan State Police - Photo by Jeana Gondek
Battle Creek man sentenced to prison for fatal drunk driving crash
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Battle Creek man is on his way to prison for driving drunk and killing another man. Jose Cavazos was sentenced to 29 months to 15 years on Monday, May 16, in Kalamazoo ...
May 17, 2022 Best Law
DTMB on the lookout for the 2022 State Christmas tree
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan officials have begun the search for the 2022 Official State Christmas Tree. The Department of Technology, Management, and Budget is the agency tasked with located ...
May 17, 2022 Robert Nunnally / CC
The West Michigan Area Show back for another year at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Since the 1960s, this juried show has featured work in all media to include drawing hundreds of entries from a 14-county region. The KIA is set to celebrate the work of W...
May 17, 2022
2022 Kalamazoo Bike Week and Mayor's bicycle ride on Saturday, May 21
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Mayors of the City of Portage and the City of Kalamazoo will lead an 8-mile bike ride to commemorate Kalamazoo Bike Week on Saturday, May 21, beginning at 9 a.m. The ...
May 17, 2022 Portage receives BCF award for being bicycle friendly
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office warns of ongoing telephone scam
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- There's a phone scam that seems to making the rounds through the various law enforcement agencies in Southwest Michigan. And the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office puttin...
May 17, 2022 Gonzalo Baeza / CC
City to spend $1 million to study turning some one way streets back to two way in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In Egypt it was building pyramids. In France it was cathedrals and palaces. In Kalamazoo, the monumental task seems to be turning one way streets back into two ways. Anoth...
May 17, 2022 Kalamazoo City Commission meeting May 17, 2022 (courtesy of John McNeill)
Kalamazoo's Mayor offers condolences, support for families of Buffalo shooting victims
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The terrible mass shooting in Buffalo, New York prompted Kalamazoo's Mayor to send his condolences to that community. Saturday, a white supremacist wearing body armor and ...
May 17, 2022 Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson at the May 16, 2022 City Commission meeting (courtesy of John McNeill)
