Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Sheriff Fuller discusses tornado damage
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer has issued a state of emergency for Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Branch, and Cass counties after two tornadoes were confirmed in Portage. Another torna...
May 08, 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
Results in for May 7 election
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The results of the May 7, 2024 election are in. Mattawan Consolidated School district voters have approved two bond proposals that will pay for district-wide improvements ...
May 07, 2024 hjl / CC
City officials say two tornado touchdowns cause significant damage in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - City officials now say they believe two tornadoes touched down in Portage Tuesday evening. They say there is significant damage, including damage to residential and commerci...
May 07, 2024
Legal fee price tag grows as Kalamazoo County continues push to obtain Gourdneck Lake cottage
KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With the issue still stuck in the courts, it appears Kalamazoo County has spent over $180,000 so far in its effort to acquire a family's lakeside cottage. According...
May 07, 2024 The beach at Kalamazoo County's Prairie View Park near Vicksburg, MI (courtesy of Kalamazoo County)
City of Portage hit hard by tornado late Tuesday afternoon
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Thousands lost power and there was significant damage in the Portage and Centreville areas as several tornadoes struck southwest Michigan late Tuesday afternoon. At 7:15 p.m...
May 07, 2024 (viewer submitted photo to WOOD-TV 8)
AUDIO: Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense releases report on national measures needed to avoid another pandemic
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new report from the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense is calling for more action by all levels of the government to strengthen biodefense measures. Former Congressman ...
May 07, 2024 Congressman Fred Upton announces grant for Kzoo-BC Airport (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
Off-duty Kalamazoo detective spots man with gun while she was running marathon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An off-duty Kalamazoo Public Safety detective helped other officers to arrest a man she saw pulling a gun on a woman while the detective was running in the Zeigler Kalamaz...
May 07, 2024 KDPS Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
Request to remove St. Joseph County Sheriff still under review by governor's office
CENTREVILLE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Even though she has received a report from the state's Attorney General, Governor Whitmer has not acted on a request from the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners to...
May 07, 2024 Mugshot for St. Joseph County Sheriff Mark Lillywhite Feb 26, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo Co Sheriff's Office)
Man gets into angry confrontation at Springfield car dealership, stabs himself in the abdomen
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Department says a 48-year-old man from Battle Creek walked into a car dealership on Dickman Road in Springfield on Monday afternoon and stabb...
May 06, 2024 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
AUDIO: WMU class working to keep college graduates in community
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo is a center for educating young professionals, but creating them and keeping them here are two different things. One class at Western Michigan University has bee...
May 06, 2024 (Photo by John McNeil).
