Category Archives: Top News Stories
Another town hall on new Northside neighborhood branch library location to be held Monday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As plans are being developed for establishing a new version of the Alma Powell branch of the Kalamazoo Public Library in the Northside neighborhood, library officials are ...
Oct 30, 2024 Interior of Alice Powell Branch Library in Kalamazoo (courtesy Kalamazoo Public Library)
AUDIO: Portage councilwoman encourages taking kids with you to vote
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Now that early voting stations have opened, you may want to pass along the experience to the next generation. Portage city councilmember Jihan Young says that's right, it mi...
Oct 29, 2024
AUDIO: Many WMU students casting their first-ever ballot in presidential election
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Students are casting their ballots in the presidential race on the Western Michigan University campus. Jeff Breneman is the vice-president of government relations for West...
Oct 29, 2024 (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin rallies Kalamazoo Democrats in bid for U.S. Senate
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Elissa Slotkin stopped in Kalamazoo Monday as she enters the home stretch in her statewide campaign to fill the seat left vacant by the reti...
Oct 29, 2024
Harris caught in hot mike moment with Whitmer in Kalamazoo bar
KALAMAZOO, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Kalamazoo last Saturday included a hot mic moment as she was having a beer with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer during a photo op ...
Oct 28, 2024
WMed, Corewell Health announce new program for medical students
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University's Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine and Corewell Health Lakeland Graduate Medical Education are teaming up to offer medical students clinical...
Oct 28, 2024
AUDIO: Early voting underway in Kalamazoo County, rest of Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Voting season is in full swing with absentee balloting underway, four early in-person voting stations now operating in Kalamazoo County and local clerks gearing up for Ele...
Oct 28, 2024 Kalamazoo County sign (Photo by John McNeil)
Seven shot over weekend in two Kalamazoo shootings
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is investigating two shootings that happened late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The first was just before midnight at a strip mall on Gu...
Oct 28, 2024 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety . (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
September unemployment drops in Kalamazoo County and around the state
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Figures released last week by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget show Kalamazoo County's unemployment rate dropped to 4% in September. That number ...
Oct 27, 2024 EpicTop10.com / CC
AUDIO: Michelle Obama, Vice President Harris hold packed rally at Wings Event Center
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former First Lady Michelle Obama stepped back into the campaign spotlight Saturday night as she rallied Kalamazoo voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris for Presid...
Oct 26, 2024
