Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County commission approves 2025 budget, pay raise
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners have approved their tentative 2025 budget, but it wasn't unanimous and there was controversy. A proposal to raise commissioner salaries by a...
Oct 16, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety launches Gun Amnesty Program
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety has launched a Gun Amnesty Program, which they say will offer residents a safe and anonymous way to dispose of unwanted firearms....
Oct 15, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
Woodford-Paige sentenced to 28 to 60 years in prison for shooting death in Kalamazoo last November
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to 28 to 60 years in prison for a fatal shooting in Kalamazoo last November. Laquay Lee Woodford-Paige was sentenced Monday after bein...
Oct 15, 2024 Laquay Lee Woodford-Paige (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
AUDIO: Whitmer, Evers on Harris-Walz Blue Wall Bus Tour in Wisconsin
WASAU, WI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer is on a Harris-Walz Blue Wall Bus Tour in Wisconsin along with Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers. He pushed for voters to cast their ballot. The group wi...
Oct 15, 2024 Governor Whitmer announces record number of health insurance enrollees (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: Woman to be charged with driving drunk causing serious injuries in hayride crash
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Charges of operating while intoxicated causing serious injuries are pending against a woman for driving her SUV into a hayride trailer south of Allegan on Saturday night. He...
Oct 15, 2024 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to vote on 2025 budget tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board is scheduled to hold a public hearing and take a final vote on their proposed 2025 budget tonight, but still have some items to nail down. Among...
Oct 15, 2024
AUDIO: Women's march held at Bronson Park in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Hundreds of people turned up for a women's march in Bronson Park in downtown Kalamazoo Sunday, coming from all over Michigan and northwest Indiana. The women called for su...
Oct 14, 2024
Unattended campfire destroys outbuilding in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An unattended campfire in Portage quickly spread to a nearby outbuilding Saturday afternoon on Harvest Lane. The outbuilding was a complete loss, but firefighters got the fl...
Oct 14, 2024 Arseni Mourzenko
AUDIO: Homeless issues continue to prompt people to call for city of Kalamazoo action
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Affordable housing continues to be a problem in Kalamazoo, and pressure is once again building now that temperatures have begun to dip. Public comment at city commission m...
Oct 14, 2024 Mess from homeless encampment on the Kalamazoo River - Courtesy Kalamazoo River Alliance
Man arrested in KVET bust
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 45-year-old Kalamazoo man is facing several felony charges after the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team executed a search warrant Thursday in the 700 block of Staples Ave...
Oct 14, 2024
