Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County changes ordinance for deadbeat hotels
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A few deadbeat hotels in Kalamazoo have been getting away without paying all their taxes but ordinance changes will soon take effect to force them to pay. Like most larger...
Jun 05, 2024 Photo from John McNeill.
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County spending more money on tornado cleanup
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County will be sending more money to areas hit by last month's tornado, this time to clean up damage in county drains that could flood if another storm hits. Com...
Jun 05, 2024 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
Body of unidentified person recovered in Kalamazoo River at Albion
ALBION, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A body that was discovered on Tuesday afternoon in the Kalamazoo River at Albion has been turned over to the Calhoun County Medical Examiner. The Albion Department of Public S...
Jun 05, 2024 Albion Department of Public Safety logo
AUDIO: KPS holds Promise signing ceremony at Milwood Elementary
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's never too early to start educating a child. That's one reason kindergartners at Milwood Elementary in Kalamazoo participated in a Promise signing ceremony this week. ...
Jun 05, 2024
JumpstART Weekend coming up in downtown Kalamazoo this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Downtown Kalamazoo will be hopping with a number of events beginning this Friday that organizers are calling a summer JumpstART Weekend. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Fair w...
Jun 05, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commission approves $12 million federal grant for roads
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As expected, Kalamazoo city commissioners have given their stamp of approval to a $12-million federal roads grant to turn Michigan and Kalamazoo avenues back into two-way ...
Jun 04, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence to continue providing for the city
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo has one thing going for it than no other urban area in the state, or perhaps the nation has, and that's the Foundation for Excellence It's an old funding model f...
Jun 04, 2024 Brown says the ratio of funding for tax relief will grow over the next 15-years, while the other two funding goals will likely shrink.
Kalamazoo Public Schools holding Promise Signing Day
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools want all their students to look forward to college. Toward that end, they will give kindergarten students a chance to sign up for the unique colle...
Jun 04, 2024
Kalamazoo County commission to get presentation Tuesday on infant mortality program idea
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo has been struggling for decades to improve a high infant mortality rate, and county commissioners will receive a presentation Tuesday on a program adopted in Fli...
Jun 03, 2024 Kalamazoo County sign (Photo by John McNeil)
Man arrested by KVET
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 45-year-old man has been arrested by Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team members for drug sales and other charges. Officers went to the 1000 block of Trimble Avenue May 30...
Jun 03, 2024
