Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Grand opening Thursday for new Animal Rescue Project facility
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Animal Rescue Project - The Charles and Lynn Zhang Animal Rescue Center is holding a grand opening celebration Thursday at its new facility in Kalamazoo. Located at 1616 C...
Oct 29, 2025
Former Lawton Community Schools employee charged with embezzlement
LAWTON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Lawton Community Schools employee Andria Rice-Keister has been charged with embezzlement over $50,000 but less than $100,000. She was working as a bookkeeper and clerk...
Oct 29, 2025
American Axle & Manufacturing getting state help in Three Rivers facility upgrades
THREE RIVERS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - American Axle & Manufacturing is getting help from the state as they work on upgrading its Three Rivers factory. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation says ...
Oct 29, 2025 Three Rivers, Michigan - Google Street View
AUDIO: Free shuttle bus available for WMU students in and out of downtown Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new pilot program to get Western Michigan University students to downtown Kalamazoo and back will begin soon, to make the trip easier. The free shuttle service will begi...
Oct 29, 2025
City of Kalamazoo buys four properties on South Burdick Street, West Crosstown Parkway
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four properties on South Burdick Street and West Crosstown Parkway are being purchased by the city of Kalamazoo for $310,000. The properties will pave the way for future w...
Oct 28, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall in the fall. (Photo by John McNeill).
Cass County crash Monday evening kills Vandalia man
PORTER TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 42-year-old Vandalia man has been killed in a crash in Cass County Monday evening. The sheriff's office responded to the crash near the intersection of US-12 and M...
Oct 28, 2025 Police lights
Michigan Speaker Matt Hall blames past state spending for SNAP funding shortfall
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall says wasteful spending in past years is to blame for the state's inability to cover November SNAP benefits. The Richland Republican argues t...
Oct 28, 2025
Otsego man sentenced for arson, previous charges
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michael Kilbourn of Otsego will spend between the next 57 months to 10 years in prison for his role starting a fire that destroyed a play structure at Otsego's Norths...
Oct 28, 2025
Lansing moving forward on mobile housing pods purchased from Kalamazoo nonprofit
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Lansing is moving forward on their plans to use the mobile housing pods purchased from Kalamazoo's nonprofit Housing Resources Incorporated. The 50 pods were pur...
Oct 28, 2025 Pods are very small shelters that have been used to provide emergency and transitional shelter in other communities. (Photos courtesy HRI)
Stuart Neighborhood residents want city to take action to cut down traffic crashes
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A perceived spike in serious traffic accidents in the Stuart Neighborhood has residents there concerned, even taking the law into their own hands, and demanding the city t...
Oct 27, 2025 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
