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Survey results show Kalamazoo has work to do
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - New survey results show that the city of Kalamazoo may have work to do. Results from the Polco national survey shows that the services and issues that Kalamazoo residents ...
Mar 24, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall in the fall. (Photo by John McNeill).
AUDIO: Final trimester underway at Kalamazoo Public Schools
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The final trimester in Kalamazoo Public Schools begins today, as the district will be changing back to semesters this fall. Superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade says this is a ...
Mar 24, 2025 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix High School (photo courtesy of Kalamazoo Public Schools)
Kalamazoo Public Schools students getting a look at college campus life this week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools 7th and 9th graders will heading for college this week, to get a flavor for life on campus, and an education on what it takes to go on to higher e...
Mar 24, 2025
AUDIO: Hundreds protest Social Security changes, possible cuts in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Hundreds of people protested outside the Social Security Office in Kalamazoo on Saturday, demanding the federal government not make changes to the program. Jayne Trombley ...
Mar 24, 2025 pressmaster / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo County jobless rate goes up to 4.9% in January
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Not seasonally adjusted jobless rates rose in all 18 Michigan labor market areas for January, including in Kalamazoo County. According to data released last week by the Mi...
Mar 24, 2025 Kevin Smith / CC
1,000 food professionals from across the world expected to attend WMU conference this week in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Food service industry representatives will be descending on downtown Kalamazoo later this week, as Western Michigan University hosts its annual Food Marketing Conference. ...
Mar 23, 2025
Kalamazoo Public Schools students to get a taste of college life next week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools seventh graders will be heading to Kalamazoo Valley Community College, while ninth graders will be going to Western Michigan University next week ...
Mar 22, 2025
Second suspect in fatal shooting last year on Kalamazoo's Northside arrested in Georgia
FULTON COUNTY, GA (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man wanted for a deadly drive-by shooting Mother's Day 2023 has been arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, thanks to a coordinated effort between the U.S. Marshals...
Mar 21, 2025 Dontaviour Lawrel Smith (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools board vice president believes Trump violated US Constitution with EO
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - President Donald Trump has began efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and one local school official called for public help to oppose the plan. Trump was ...
Mar 21, 2025 samael1986 / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools approves change to semesters from trimesters
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools trustees have made it official, as they will be switching from trimesters back to regular semesters this fall. Trimesters were installed years ago...
Mar 21, 2025
