Category Archives: Top News Stories
2025 Home & Garden Expo this weekend in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The 2025 Home & Garden Expo will be held this weekend at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center. The event is being presented by the Home Builders Association of Western Mic...
Mar 05, 2025
Housing Resources Inc holding annual 5K Walk to End Homelessness March 22
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Housing Resources Incorporated's annual 5K Walk to End Homelessness is coming up on Saturday, March 22. The fundraiser will go from Homer Stryker Field along the Kalamazoo...
Mar 05, 2025
Kalamazoo County board moving ahead with plans for youth sports facility
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board has voted to move ahead with plans to build a new youth sports facility, by giving initial approval for plans to finance it. That involves stagi...
Mar 05, 2025 Possible layout for a new youth sports complex in Kalamazoo (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board finalizes hotel purchase for homeless shelter
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County has finally closed on a hotel purchase for a new transitional family shelter for the homeless. County Housing Director Mary Balkema announced the good new...
Mar 05, 2025
One dead after two vehicle crash in St. Joseph Country
FLORENCE TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 21-year-old Howe, Indiana man is dead after police say he apparently ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle in St. Joseph County's Florence Township T...
Mar 04, 2025 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
Two persons rescued, dog dies in Arbors of Battle Creek fire
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Two persons had to be rescued early Tuesday morning when a fire which caused nearly $1-point-1 million in damage broke out at the Arbors of Battle Creek apartment comple...
Mar 04, 2025 Battle Creek Fire department (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Even with delay in "Streets For All," Kalamazoo will have roadwork in 2025
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo has announced that that major Kalamazoo Avenue facelift, as part of the downtown "Streets For All" project, has been delayed a year, but there will s...
Mar 04, 2025 Photo provided by the Michigan Department of Transportation.
AUDIO: Kalamazoo vice mayor urging people to pay attention on roads
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Vice Mayor Jeanne Hess says road construction is fine, but it won't make the city safer if drivers don't get serious about getting behind the wheel. It's a perso...
Mar 04, 2025 zeferli@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo man injured in hatchet attack at Portage motel
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 32-year-old Kalamazoo man is hospitalized in serious condition after being attacked by another man with a hatchet at a Portage motel. The man called police around 7:30 las...
Mar 04, 2025 Portage Police cruiser (photo by John McNeil)
Financing delays from the feds pushing back Kalamazoo street projects one year
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Work planned for downtown Kalamazoo this summer is being pushed back a year, due to delays in the approval for financing with the federal government. Public Works Director...
Mar 03, 2025
