Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
2 arrested after leading police on high-speed chase
ARLINGTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Two people are in police custody after a traffic stop turned into a pursuit in Van Buren County. It happened on County Road 215 near 28th Street in Arlington Tow...
Nov 21, 2021 James Reynolds / CC
Jeep crashes into South Haven Chamber of Commerce Building: No injuries reported
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- South Haven police are investigating after a vehicle crashed into the city's Chamber of Commerce Building a little after 12 a.m., Saturday, November 20. Authorities say...
Nov 21, 2021 Photo from wwmt.com
Trial for former Kalamazoo pastor postponed until May of next year
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The trial of a former Kalamazoo pastor accused of sex crimes has been postponed until next year. A hearing held Thursday regarding Strick Strickland determined that the pro...
Nov 20, 2021 Trial of former pastor moved to May of next year
(Mugshot courtesy of the Kalamazoo County Jail)
Proposed site for tiny house projects getting resistance from neighbors
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The proposed site for locating about 50 tiny houses to house homeless people in Kalamazoo is meeting with some resistance from neighbors. City officials said that the prope...
Nov 20, 2021 Proposed location for tiny house project meeting with pushback from residents
Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership urges community to shop local on Small Business Saturday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This holiday season, the Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership urges the community to join the nationwide movement to support local by shopping downtown Kalamazoo businesses on S...
Nov 19, 2021 (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Decatur man arrested on felony charges of poaching deer
PAW PAW MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A domestic violence complaint resulted in the arrest of a Van Buren County man for animal poaching. The Michigan State Police received a complaint in October regarding 33 yea...
Nov 19, 2021 Photo courtesy of Michigan State Police
KDPS reports man in Indiana jail confessed to two area bank robberies
KALAMAZOO MI/STEUBEN CO IN (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says that a man currently being held in a jail in Indiana has confessed to committing two bank robberies in Kalamazo...
Nov 19, 2021
Upton slams passage of what he calls a "partisan social spending agenda"
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) - 6th District Michigan Republican Congressman Fred Upton Friday morning joined the entire House Republican Conference in voting against H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better ...
Nov 19, 2021 Former US House Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) in a file photo. (photo courtesy office of Congressman Fred Upton)
Holiday Parade will take over downtown Kalamazoo Saturday morning
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Christmas holiday season officially arrives in Kalamazoo this weekend with the big annual parade along the usual route downtown. Now known as the Maple Hill Holiday Pa...
Nov 19, 2021 A map of the route for the Maple Hill Holiday Parade in downtown Kalamazoo Nov. 20, 2021
Consumers Energy announces three solar projects, including one in Marshall
JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Wednesday, Consumers Energy today announced agreements to add almost 400 megawatts of clean energy from three Michigan solar projects in southern central Michigan. Officials...
Nov 19, 2021 Consumers Energy truck parked at WKZO studios in Kalamazoo, MI. (Photo by Will Kriss).
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