Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board holds strategic planning session
TEXAS TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There has been a lot of turnover at the top in Kalamazoo County government in the past few years, and the county board held the second of a pair of sessions with a fa...
Jun 07, 2024
Urban Alliance to host Life Camp to steer youth sway from gun violence in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With the goal to help provide area youth with tools and resources to step outside the cycles of gun violence within Kalamazoo, Urban Alliance will kick off its third annua...
Jun 07, 2024
Governor Whitmer requesting Major Disaster Declaration for SWMI tornadoes
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer is asking President Biden for a Major Disaster Declaration for Branch, Cass, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph counties due to the May 7 tornadoes. The dec...
Jun 06, 2024 Governor Gretchen Whitmer announcing her Lowering MI Costs Plan in Lansing, MI Feb 6, 2022 (courtesy Office of Governor)
KVET makes arrest in drug bust
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and the Crime Reduction Team have made an arrest in a drug bust Wednesday. The 49-year-old male suspect was arrested on several felon...
Jun 06, 2024
Air Zoo nearly finished restoring WWII FM-2 Wildcat
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo has nearly finished restoring a FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane that was cut in half during training over Lake Michigan on December 18, 1944. Air Zoo p...
Jun 06, 2024
Today is 80th anniversary of D-Day invasion
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Many of the world's leaders are gathering on the coast of France today to commemorate a pivotal day in history, the 80th anniversary of the World War 2 battle that eventua...
Jun 06, 2024 C-47 Airtrain that led D-Day invasion in World War II - Brandon James WKZO
Over $30,000 raised for tornado relief in Kalamazoo County
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Over $30,000 has been raised by Zeigler Auto Group for tornado relief efforts in Kalamazoo County. They held the event last night and brought in their NASCAR Cup Series dr...
Jun 06, 2024 Zeigler Auto Group logo
Motorcyclist from Plainwell killed after crashing into van in Barry County
ORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Barry County Sheriff's Office says a 34-year-old man from Plainwell is dead after his motorcycle slammed into a van in Barry County's Orangeville Township W...
Jun 05, 2024 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
KDPS seeks help locating missing teenager
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is seeking the public's assistance in locating a teenaged girl who was reported missing on Tuesday. 16 year old Xitlali "Ruby" Cru...
Jun 05, 2024 KDPS seeking 16 year old Xitlali “Ruby” Cruz, who walked away from her home Tuesday morning (photo courtesy of Kalamazoo Dept. of Public Safety)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County urged to spend opioid lawsuit money to prevent overdoses
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A rash of drug overdose deaths in Kalamazoo this past week has one activist demanding the county use the money from the national opioid lawsuits, to save lives, and to do ...
Jun 05, 2024 Photo from Phil Gawel, WWMT.
