Category Archives: Top News Stories
Portage closing Oakland Drive Compost Facility for the public
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is closing its Oakland Drive Compost Facility to the public because it is nearly full. It has been open to commercial tree removal companies since last w...
May 14, 2024 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
AUDIO: God's Kitchen of Michigan launches fundraiser for new delivery van
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - God's Kitchen of Michigan and the Broncos Kitchen Foundation are raising money through GoFundMe to pay for a new delivery van. Reverend William Stein joined WKZO Mornings ...
May 14, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo helping Portage recover from EF-2 tornado
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo has been one of the governmental agencies sending help to Portage, following the EF-2 tornado that struck a week ago. Public Works director Jim Baker...
May 14, 2024 Lori Higgins took this picture of a tornado touching down on Prairie Corners Road, just south of Mendon. Courtesy Clayton Lyczynski II - Community Connector Facebook page
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commission approves funding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners have tentatively agreed to fund a controversial reproductive health program, and another YWCA effort that helps human trafficking victims. The...
May 14, 2024
Woman charged in Otsego stabbing death
OTSEGO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Otsego police have arrested 24-year-old Karleigh Strickfaden for the stabbing death of 51-year-old Leonard Connor. Connor was killed Friday evening at a home in the 400 block...
May 14, 2024
AUDIO: More construction on the way in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - If you thought you had finally figured out how to avoid all the construction zones in Kalamazoo, think again. More orange cones could be in your future. Construction begin...
May 14, 2024 I 94 road project completion date revised (Photo by John McNeil)
Kalamazoo County Emergency Management lists tornado damage
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County Emergency Management has put out a list of the damage done last Tuesday evening by an EF-2 tornado in Texas Township, Portage, and Pavilion Township. 25 s...
May 13, 2024 (viewer submitted photo to WOOD-TV 8)
Two arrested in Kalamazoo area drug busts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two men are in the Kalamazoo County Jail after a pair of drug busts on Friday by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team. Officers executed two search warrants as they inves...
May 13, 2024
AUDIO: BBB has tips to avoid becoming scam victim
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Better Business Bureau is renewing its call for people to be cautious when calling contractors to repair their home if it was damaged in last week's EF-2 tornado that ...
May 13, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commissioners to discuss spending $160,000
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Given the problems faced by the city of Kalamazoo, you wouldn't think it would be difficult for city commissioners to find ways to spend money to address them, but it has....
May 13, 2024 Downtown Kalamazoo at night - Brandon James WKZO
