Category Archives: Top News Stories
Fire at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix High School causes evacuation
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A fire at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix High School late morning Tuesday caused the evacuation of students and staff. The fire was in a storage area in the B-Wing of the high schoo...
Jan 07, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo to use surveillance cameras to catch people recycling wrong materials
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo continues to make slow progress toward reaching their goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050. One way to do that will require installing surveillance ...
Jan 07, 2025
Kalamazoo working on 2026 budget
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo city budget for 2025 has now been approved. Commissioners took the vote last night. Now, work will begin on the 2026 budget. In fact, in some respects, it al...
Jan 07, 2025 GotCredit / CC
Congressman Huizenga pleased with WRDA being signed for water infrastructure priorities
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - Congressman Bill Huizenga of Zeeland is pleased with President Biden signing water infrastructure priorities in Battle Creek, Holland, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph into law....
Jan 07, 2025 US House Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland) (photo Gary Stevens, Midwest Communications)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission approves 2025 budget
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There are big changes in the new Kalamazoo city budget for 2025. Several commissioners noted just how big those changes are when they gave final approval to the spending p...
Jan 07, 2025
Teen sentenced after entering guilty plea to carjacking in Snyder death
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One of two teenagers charged as adults in the February 2023 death of Battle Creek Central High School senior Jack Snyder was sentenced on Monday. WWMT-TV reports 14-yea...
Jan 07, 2025 Chris Potter / CC
Gas prices rise 11-cents statewide in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The average gasoline price in Michigan is eleven-cents higher this week at $3.14 a gallon. Triple-A Michigan says that is up 15-cents in the past month and 30-cents more th...
Jan 06, 2025
Portage to vote on new zoning Tuesday to upgrade Portage Road commercial corridor
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage wants to upgrade one of its oldest shopping corridors, and could approve new zoning Tuesday to make that happen. The target is the Portage Road commercia...
Jan 06, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Commissioners expected to approve new City of Kalamazoo budget Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo City Commission is expected to approve the city's 2025 $388 million budget at their meeting Monday. The budget covers all funds, including General, Water, Wa...
Jan 05, 2025 GotCredit / CC
Vehicles may have been racing, leading to fatal U.S. 131 crash
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) - One man is dead and another is in police custody after a crash on U.S. 131 in Kalamazoo County's Oshtemo Township early Sunday. Around 2:45 a.m., deputies with the Kala...
Jan 05, 2025 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
