Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Portage to have open house on "Portage Road 360" project
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage wants to turn part of their town into a village-like setting. We have reported on their plans for the Lake Center District before. Next week, the city wi...
Feb 12, 2025
Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent discusses making snow day decisions
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With forecasters predicting two to three possible snowstorms lining up to hit southwest Michigan over the next few weeks, school officials say they are prepared to cancel ...
Feb 12, 2025
AUDIO: House Speaker Hall reacts to Governor Whitmer's road funding plan
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland is reacting to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's $3 billion plan to fix Michigan roads. He says what was put forward this week is a big i...
Feb 11, 2025 Photo provided by the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Kalamazoo, Battle Creek expected to get 6-8" of snow by Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Another winter storm is about to hit west Michigan. The National Weather Service says the next one will start around 1 p.m. tomorrow and last until 7 a.m. Thursday. Betwee...
Feb 11, 2025 Weather changes in the future of West Michigan over the next few days (Courtesy AAA Michigan)
Two juveniles arrested in Oshtemo Township with stolen handgun, marijuana
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested two juveniles yesterday afternoon after they allegedly broke into a car in a parking lot on West Main Street in ...
Feb 11, 2025 (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: KPS holds public forum on metal detectors
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade is meeting with family members to discuss the possibility of adding metal detectors at the entrances of all middle...
Feb 11, 2025
Liberty Farms Solar project in Richland Township expected to power 52,000 homes a year
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy has announced plans for another major solar project for southwest Michigan, with the latest to be constructed in Kalamazoo County's Richland Towns...
Feb 11, 2025 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
Rx Kids cash payments for pregnant mothers in Kalamazoo begin Wednesday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Sign-up begins this week for Kalamazoo's new Rx Kids program, which makes no-strings-attached cash payments to pregnant mothers in the city. The first-of-its kind program ...
Feb 10, 2025
Kalamazoo man sentenced for 2005 sexual assault of 14-year-old
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 39-year-old Kalamazoo man will spend between 12 and 50 years in prison after being convicted of two charges of first degree criminal sexual conduct for assaulting a mino...
Feb 10, 2025 Shawn Darnell Robinson Hopkins (courtesy Kalamazoo Co Prosecutors Office)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo mayor defends commission after getting complaints they're not addressing homelessness
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners have been taking a beating from homeless advocates for months as they complain that City Hall and the commissioners aren't doing enough to sol...
Feb 10, 2025 Kalamazoo City Hall in winter. (Photo by John McNeil)
