Category Archives: Top News Stories
Palisades closes $1.52 billion loan with federal agencies to restart
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township has closed on a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture for up to $...
Sep 30, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to finalize 2025 budget this week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board will hold their annual statutory meeting Tuesday to finalize the 2025 budget, but they first have to resolve a couple of controversial questions...
Sep 30, 2024 Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners at their meeting April 4, 2023 (courtesy John McNeill)
Gas prices up 10-cents a gallon in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices are up 10-cents a gallon on average in Michigan compared to last week. Triple-A Michigan says its survey of stations puts the price at $3.47 a gallon, which is u...
Sep 30, 2024
AUDIO: WMU, professors union remain at odds in contract talks
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Public Schools board has ratified their contract with the teacher's union after private negotiations, but Western Michigan University and its professors unio...
Sep 30, 2024 Western Michigan University (photo by John McNeil)
The garage of home under construction in Portage damaged by fire
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Investigators says oily stain rags caused a fire that damaged the garage of a home under construction in the 10300 block of Woodlawn in Portage. Portage fire crews arrived t...
Sep 28, 2024 Portage fire truck. (Photo courtesy City of Portage).
Battle Creek police find missing children, arrest mother
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek police have found two children who had been reported missing by their mother just after 2:30 a.m. Friday. The 32-year-old Battle Creek woman said her seven...
Sep 27, 2024
AUDIO: Students, faculty again demand WMU call for Gaza cease fire
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Pro-Palestinian protests have returned to college campuses as classes have resumed this fall across the nation and at Western Michigan University. It was standing room onl...
Sep 27, 2024 Western Michigan University Board of Trustees
KVET seizes crack cocaine, fentanyl, cash in drug bust
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and the Kalamazoo Metro SWAT Team executed a drug raid yesterday in the 600 block West North Street near North Westnedge Avenue. Inve...
Sep 27, 2024
Kalamazoo Public Schools perform well on state tests in last school year
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The last school year was a very good one for Kalamazoo Public Schools according to state test scores. Superintendent Dr. Darrin Slade presented the results to the school b...
Sep 27, 2024
AUDIO: Two Men and a Truck collecting supplies in "Movers for Mutts"
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Men and a Truck are holding a fundraiser through October 30 to benefit the Kalamazoo Humane Society called "Movers for Mutts." Claire Bouwens is the marketing speciali...
Sep 26, 2024
