Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Local state representative urges Michigan's Governor to push for an end to vaccine mandate on truckers
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A local lawmaker and others around the state are calling on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to work with federal and Canadian officials to end a vaccine mandate on trucke...
Feb 11, 2022 Jack-JackT / CC
Free COVID-19 testing site to open Friday at Kalamazoo Expo Center
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Humans Services, and the Centers for Disease Control, ...
Feb 10, 2022 Drive Through COVID-19 testing, WHTC file photo
KPEP celebrates grand opening of second Walnut & Park Café in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A program that provides adult offenders community-based alternatives to incarceration is expanding its food service program in Kalamazoo. KPEP will celebrate the grand ope...
Feb 10, 2022 KPEP logo
Kalamazoo Parks and Recreation Director steps down, takes similar job in Dearborn
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - City of Kalamazoo Parks and Recreation Director Sean Fletcher is moving on to a new job, after a decade of rebuilding and improving the city's parks and programs. He is ta...
Feb 10, 2022 Kalamazoo Parks and Recreation logo (courtesy of Kzoo Parks)
Curriculum changes to encourage more students to going into teaching being proposed by Kalamazoo Public Schools adminstrators
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Trustees will be asked tonight to make changes to next year's school curriculum, and one of the bigger changes is designed to address...
Feb 10, 2022
All Kalamazoo Public Library locations to resume in-person services next Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After going to just curbside service last month due to the rise in COVID-19 cases, all Kalamazoo Public Library locations will resume in-person services beginning Monday, ...
Feb 09, 2022 Kalamazoo Public Library-Central Library (courtesy of Kalamazoo Public Library)
Fatal hit and run driver still at large, KDPS asking for public's help
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police still haven't located a hit and run driver who killed a Kalamazoo pedestrian late last month. January 28 at approximately 6:30 p.m., the Kalamazoo Department of Pub...
Feb 09, 2022 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
A second suspect charged with rape and armed robbery in Kalamazoo last October
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An additional suspect has been charged in an October 2021 home invasion and sexual assault in Kalamazoo. At approximately 1:30 a.m. October 3, Kalamazoo Department of Publ...
Feb 09, 2022 Best Law
A Kalamazoo man is shot Wednesday afternoon, with the suspect still at large
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is investigating another shooting, this time Wednesday in the area of Adelaide and Alcott Streets. Several witnesses called 911 a...
Feb 09, 2022 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Both the city and county developing aggressive plans for dealing with Kalamazoo area housing concerns
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo City Commission Monday night gave the public a glimpse into their ambitious plans and goals to create more affordable housing, making it clear it won't be ea...
Feb 09, 2022 Chart shows that home construction in Kalamazoo has been declining for years, and then took a nosedive when the pandemic struck (courtesy of City of Kalamazoo)
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