Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County balks at cost of Lady Justice statue
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It seems like the high cost of justice, Lady Justice, is giving Kalamazoo County commissioners second thoughts. The proposal is to install a historic statue of Lady Justic...
Nov 29, 2024
AUDIO: Portage council passes resolution supporting Black Friday shopping
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Today is Black Friday, although the meaning of that has changed over the years and now many retailers have been offering Black Friday deals all week if not all month. Tomorr...
Nov 29, 2024 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
West Michigan under a winter weather advisory through 7:00 a.m. Saturday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Some parts of west Michigan could get up to eight-inches of snow as lake-effect snow is hitting the area. The heaviest snowfall is forecasted for Kalamazoo, Van Buren, All...
Nov 29, 2024 Photo by: Jerry Malec, WKZO News.
Aircraft skids off runway at Battle Creek Executive Airport, no injuries reported
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Battle Creek Executive Airport temporarily closed two runways this morning after an aircraft skidded off Runway 31 during landing. City officials say at around 8:30...
Nov 28, 2024
DNA testing leads to conviction of Kalamazoo man for 2005 sexual assault
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, with the conviction coming 19 years after the assault. 39-year-old Shawn Darnell Robinson ...
Nov 27, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo official says street changes appear to make travel safer so far
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's chief traffic engineer says it appears that changes to Kalamazoo's streets seem to be making them safer, but there is a lot at play here. Dennis Randolph says ...
Nov 27, 2024 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County Public Housing Commission cuts ribbon for ten affordable living mobile homes
SCHOOLCRAFT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Public Housing Commission held a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday to celebrate the opening of ten mobile homes for low-income residents ne...
Nov 27, 2024
AUDIO: Area organizations, businesses, agencies making sure people have Thanksgiving meal
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - No one in Kalamazoo should have to go without a Thanksgiving day meal this year. Several organizations, agencies and businesses are seeing to that. There will be several l...
Nov 26, 2024 Battle Creek Bruin Hockey Team members volunteered to serve free Thanksgiving dinners at God's Kitchen of Michigan's First Congregational Church meal site in 2014. Photo by: Rev. William Stein
Kalamazoo Township seeking applicants for trustee vacancy
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Township Board of Trustees is asking any residents interested in becoming a trustee to apply. A letter of interest needs to be emailed to Township S...
Nov 26, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Township)
AUDIO: Incoming state House Speaker Matt Hall unveils GOP road funding plan
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Incoming state House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland has unveiled his party's proposal for spending $2.7 billion for road funding and says it will not affect the School Aid Fu...
Nov 26, 2024 State Representative Matt Hall (left)
