Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Portage homeowners ask city council for help with neighbor
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - They say "good fences make good neighbors." It's also the subject of a Robert Frost poem. The residents along Quail Street may be proof of that. They claim an ex-felon with ...
Mar 26, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Portage City Council looking for new city attorney
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage City Council is doing something they have never done before - look for a new city attorney. Currently their attorney, Catherine Kaufman, is on a contract that is...
Mar 26, 2025 zolnierek / Depositphotos.com
Wrong-way driver arrested on US-131
KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 35-year-old from Chicago is in the Kalamazoo County Jail after being arrested this morning driving north in the southbound lanes of US-131. A sheriff's deputy not...
Mar 26, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil)
Two teenagers arrested for allegedly stealing guns in Cassopolis
CASSOPOLIS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Cass County Drug Enforcement Team, Cass County Sheriff's Office, and Cassopolis police arrested two people Monday afternoon in Cassopolis for allegedly stealing sever...
Mar 25, 2025 Cass County Sheriff's Office sign. (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Comstock Public Schools superintendent says transgender students still protected despite policy rescindment
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Transgender students still have protection in Comstock Public Schools despite the school board removing a policy on that in response to an executive order from the...
Mar 25, 2025 (courtesy Comstock Public Schools)
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputy shoots, kills attacking dog in Menards parking lot
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputy has shot and killed a dog that was attacking him in the Menards parking lot on Gull Road in Comstock Township. He was making co...
Mar 25, 2025
Battle Creek city manager finalists chosen
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three finalists have been chosen for Battle Creek's next city manager. The city commission has selected Nathaniel Clark, Nathan Henne, and Patrick Jordan as finalists. ...
Mar 25, 2025 City of Battle Creek logo
As contract negotiations have stalled, WMed residents plan to strike next week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With negotiations at an impasse, a strike is looming for residents at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Resident and Fellow Alliance, t...
Mar 25, 2025 (courtesy Western Michigan University)
Groundbreaking this week for new senior citizen housing project in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Wednesday for a new $27 million, 70-unit affordable senior citizen housing project in Kalamazoo's Historic Northside. Developers say...
Mar 25, 2025 (courtesy Southwest Michigan First)
Police asking for public help after Kalamazoo man dies from gunshot wound
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is now asking for the public's assistance following a fatal shooting last week. 23-year-old Shaughqual Laqia Anderson died from a...
Mar 24, 2025 Shaughqual Laqia Anderson (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
