Category Archives: Top News Stories
Portage City Manager receives three year contract extension
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage City Manager Patrick McGinnis will start the new year with job security. The Portage City Council has voted to extend his contract for another three years, even thou...
Dec 11, 2024 Portage City Manager Patrick McGinnis
KPS officials say building new elementary where El Sol Elementary exists wouldn't work
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools officials say building a new El Sol Elementary in the Vine neighborhood where the school has been located is not going to work. Parents learned th...
Dec 10, 2024
Michigan Supreme Court won't hear appeal of Kalamazoo County sexual assault suspect
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Supreme Court will not hear an appeal by a Kalamazoo County man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. That means prosecutors will be allowed to int...
Dec 10, 2024
Hand recount underway in Michigan House District 44
MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The hand recount of all the votes cast in the state House 44th District by the Board of State Canvassers is underway in Marshall. Incumbent Democrat Jim Haadsma was defeate...
Dec 10, 2024 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commissioners dive into proposed 2025 budget
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - You think you spend a lot of money this time of the year. The Kalamazoo city commissioners not only have to do their Christmas shopping, but decide how the city will spend...
Dec 10, 2024
Portage Northern High School to present record-breaking fundraising check Friday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage Northern High School will present a record-breaking donation to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital on Friday. Students will present a check for more than $45,000 from thi...
Dec 09, 2024 Portage Public Schools logo courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
Michigan's average gas price under $3 a gallon
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gas price is back under $3 a gallon for the first time since January. Triple-A Michigan says the price is down 14-cents in the past week to $2.94. A 15-g...
Dec 09, 2024
Three teens arrested for carrying concealed weapons in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three teenagers are in the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home facing charges of carrying concealed weapons. Kalamazoo Public Safety arrested the teens, two of them being 16-y...
Dec 09, 2024
AUDIO: KPS has three information sessions today about replacing El Sol Elementary
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Plans for a groundbreaking ceremony for Kalamazoo Public Schools new central kitchen were cancelled Thursday because of the snowy weather. There is another construction pr...
Dec 09, 2024
One dead in Kalamazoo fire Sunday night
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety says one person was found dead in a home after a fire last night. They were called to the home on Clayborne Drive near South Drake Road just after ...
Dec 09, 2024
