Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo counting the homeless
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The recent subzero weather has once again raised concerns about the safety of Kalamazoo's unhoused population. The city's annual "Point in Time" head count of the homeles...
Jan 23, 2024 City of Kalamazoo commissioner Don Cooney (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
Kalamazoo area police agencies holding forum Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Six Kalamazoo area police agencies will hold their first ever Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, or ALPACT, report card forum on Thursday. It will be a...
Jan 23, 2024 Portage Public Safety continues investigation into fatal accident Sunday morning.
Van Buren County man sentenced to probation for attacking neighbor
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Van Buren County man will be on probation for three years for attacking his 79-year-old neighbor in September. Gregory Miller was sentenced to 114 days in jail as well, a...
Jan 23, 2024 Van Buren County courthouse (photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commission approves 2024 budget with a change
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The city of Kalamazoo has a budget for 2024, but after 11th hour complaints from citizens, one major funding item was yanked. A proposal to use $1.65-million in federal C...
Jan 23, 2024
New housing project with child care center opens in the Kalamazoo Northside neighborhood
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After several years of planning and months of construction, a new housing project with a child care center has opened in the Kalamazoo Northside neighborhood. Zone 32 is a...
Jan 23, 2024 Zone 32, Kalamazoo, MI (courtesy Trulia.com)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County Jail population down
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo County's jail population is down. It has decreased from about 370 a few months ago to a little over 300 now. One reason is because the circuit court has been ab...
Jan 22, 2024 Kalamazoo County Jail (photo by John McNeil)
Former WMU student convicted of 2021 murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Former Western Michigan University student Maliek Hargrave has been convicted of murder for killing a Portage teenager in October 2021. Hargrave was found guilty of secon...
Jan 22, 2024 Chris Potter / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city budget approval set for vote tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Kalamazoo city budget is scheduled for final approval tonight. The $288-million spending plan has taken months to compile and hone. It involves more than just saying ...
Jan 22, 2024
Kalamazoo man injured in Saturday rollover crash near Athens
ATHENS, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A 27-year-old Kalamazoo man was injured Saturday in a rollover crash near Athens. The Michigan State Police from the Marshall Post say the crash happened on M-66 and O Drive S...
Jan 22, 2024
One shot during Cass County domestic altercation
MARCELLUS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Cass County Sheriff's Office says a Marcellus man was shot during a fight with his roommate Saturday. Around 7:30 p.m. police were called to a residence in the 200 blo...
Jan 21, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
