Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission approves Arcadia Creek Festival Place remodel
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners have voted to approve plans to use COVID-19dollars to remodel the Arcadia Creek Festival Place, despite an hour and a half of public comments,...
Feb 20, 2024 It wasn't a packed house, but it was a large and determined group who turned out for Monday night's meeting.
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commission sets carbon neutral by 2050 goal
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo now has a starting point as it begins a decades long effort to reduce it's carbon footprint. You need only look out the window to see the impact of g...
Feb 20, 2024 Downtown Kalamazoo MI (courtesy Kalamazoo
Downtown Partnership)
18-year-old shot in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An 18-year-old Kalamazoo man is in stable condition after being shot just before 6:30 last night. He was shot in the 300 block of West Maple Street and public safety offic...
Feb 20, 2024
Kalamazoo Township manager charged with eavesdropping on closed meeting
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Township manager Dexter Mitchell has been charged with eavesdropping on a private board meeting last year. Mitchell was charged Friday with installing a...
Feb 20, 2024 Kalamazoo Township Manager Dexter Mitchell (courtesy Kalamazoo Township)
One person injured in drive-by shooting near downtown Kalamazoo Sunday afternoon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One person suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being shot and crashing their vehicle Sunday afternoon in Kalamazoo. Just after 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Department of P...
Feb 19, 2024 Crime scene tape
Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo puts out urgent call for more volunteers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With an expected dramatic jump in participants this year, officials with Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo say they are desperately seeking coaches for their 22nd seas...
Feb 19, 2024 (courtesy Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commissioners hold retreat
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo city commissioners met all day Saturday at their annual retreat to begin setting priorities for 2025's aspirational projects. They picked five specific programs ...
Feb 19, 2024 Commissioners used red sticky dots to vote from among the 24 possible programs that were ranked by impact and difficulty on the wall at the Foundry, where the retreat was held.
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission to vote on Arcadia Creek Festival Place redesign
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Opponents of a proposal to spend $1.65-million of the city of Kalamazoo's remaining COVID-19 dollars to remodel Arcadia Creek Festival Place plan to protest at City Hall t...
Feb 19, 2024
Kalamazoo County parks department to hold open house Wednesday as it develops future plans
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As it creates a road map for existing parks and recreation programs, as well as future projects, Kalamazoo County officials are looking for public input. The county parks ...
Feb 18, 2024
Galilee Baptist Church plans another mixed-use housing development for the Kalamazoo Northside neighborhood
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's Galilee Baptist Church plans to break ground later this year on a $ 7 million housing project they hope will deal with the city's housing shortage. The plan is...
Feb 18, 2024 An artist's rendering of Galilee Baptist Church’s two proposed apartment buildings (with ground-floor commercial space) looking north from the intersection of Westnedge Avenue and Elizabeth Street
