Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Portage helping tornado recovery efforts
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is helping after the deadly tornado strikes in the border counties that left four dead and 12 injured a few days ago. It was the deadliest break-out of t...
Mar 10, 2026 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
WMU looks to buy back Newell Rubbermaid building for $6 million
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University plans to buy back a building it sold in 2013 in the Western Business Technology Park 1.0. The university originally sold what is now the Newell...
Mar 09, 2026 The Newell Rubbermaid facility at Western Michigan University (courtesy WMU)
First of two suspects in the Kalamazoo shooting of multiple people in December 2024 has been sentenced to 22-40 years in prison
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been sentenced to 22-40 years in prison in connection with a 2024 shooting that left multiple people injured. Javion Jamar Jackson was convicted Februa...
Mar 09, 2026 luckyuran / Depositphotos.com
Arcadia Creek Festival Place will hold four festivals this year before renovations
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Several of downtown Kalamazoo's signature festivals will return to Arcadia Creek Festival Place this summer as the city of Kalamazoo prepares to begin construction on the ...
Mar 09, 2026
Michigan's average gas price up 56¢ in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The attacks by the U.S. and Israel on Iran have caused the average gas price in Michigan to shoot up by 56 a gallon in the past week. AAA Michigan says the average price is...
Mar 09, 2026
Summer reading program in Kalamazoo Public Schools expanding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public School's summer reading program will be expanding this year to make sure that all elementary grade students have access to books when school is on summer ...
Mar 09, 2026
State Of Emergency declared for Friday tornadoes
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared a state of emergency for Branch, Cass, and St. Joseph counties as a result of the four tornadoes that hit the area Friday afternoon. T...
Mar 09, 2026
Parents challenging KPS on transportation rules
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's an old joke for parents to tell their kids that they had to walk uphill both ways to and from school when they were young. Something like that is happening in Kalamaz...
Mar 06, 2026
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools set record high for graduation rate
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Darrin Slade is pretty pumped up about the district's latest graduation rates, which have just been reported by the state Departmen...
Mar 06, 2026 (Photo provided by John McNeill)
Two receive minor injuries after shots are fired during an argument in Kalamazoo's Knollwood neighborhood
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 24-year-old man and his 16-year-old sister are hospitalized with injuries after they were both injured in a shooting just before 11 p.m. Wednesday in Kalamazoo's Knollwo...
Mar 06, 2026 zimmytws / Depositphotos.com
