Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission awards 2025 Social Justice Youth Awards
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners call it their favorite meeting of the year. Last night they awarded eight local teens the annual 2025 Social Justice Youth Awards. The honoree...
Jan 28, 2025 Left to right starting at the top: Layla Hemphill, Ava Tate, Omar Elghawy, Winter Owens, Michael T. Scott, Isabella Morris, Dontray Hemphill and Paul Evans.
Kalamazoo man charged in relative's death
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been charged with murder in the death of a relative last Thursday. Forty-two-year-old Jerry Lee Harvey is charged with open murder, illegal entry and f...
Jan 28, 2025
Suspect in October 2024 Gull Road shooting among four arrested by KVET
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An arrest has been made by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team for a suspect's alleged role in a shooting on Gull Road that happened in October 2024. KVET arrested two 1...
Jan 27, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County to have nearly a million dollars a year for substance abusers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County will have almost a million dollars a year to spend to save the lives of substance abusers, thanks to the national opioid settlement at $947,800 per year. ...
Jan 27, 2025 Pictures of Money / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Township board to vote on ordinance banning ICE usage of resources
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Township board of trustees will vote tonight on a proposed ordinance that would ban township resources from being used by Immigrations and Customs E...
Jan 27, 2025 (courtesy Kalamazoo Township)
No arrests made yet, but police say suspect and victim knew each other prior to shooting at Kalamazoo Transportation Center Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police say the victim of a shooting at the Kalamazoo Transportation Center Thursday morning remains in stable condition, and that the victim and the suspected shooter knew...
Jan 26, 2025 (courtesy KMetro)
Death of Kalamazoo man found Thursday now ruled a homicide, suspect in custody
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says a suspect is in custody in the death of a man found murdered Thursday afternoon. At around 1:30 p.m. KDPS officers responded...
Jan 24, 2025 aijohn784 / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo's annual Chili Cookoff is this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - At the end of the coldest weeks in years, Kalamazoo will host one of its hottest events this weekend, and it may just hit the spot if you have been hunkered down indoors a...
Jan 24, 2025 Kalamazoo Chili Cook-Off. (Photo courtesy Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership).
Kalamazoo Public Safety investigating suspicious death
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is investigating a suspicious death. Police were called to a home near the intersection of East Michigan Avenue and East Main Street Thursday after...
Jan 24, 2025 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety . (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
AUDIO: El Sol Elementary School to move to Baker Street in Kalamazoo Township
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As expected, the Kalamazoo Public Schools board has voted to move El Sol Elementary School to a new building they plan to construct in Kalamazoo Township, but there was al...
Jan 24, 2025
