Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: Kalamazoo focused on downtown road changes instead of neighborhood road repairs
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- "Fixing the damn roads" has been the focus of Governor Whitmer and the state over the last few years. But it hasn't been in Kalamazoo, and it looks like road surfaces in ...
Dec 22, 2023
Visitors to BC City Hall being asked to follow the "yellow brick road" during first floor renovations
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Renovations on the first floor at Battle Creek City Hall are scheduled to start on Monday, January 8, 2024 and City staff will ask everybody to follow the "yellow-brick ...
Dec 22, 2023 Courtesy City of Battle Creek
One charged in 2021 Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- One of two suspects in the murder in June 2021 of 33-year-old Gerryon Kye in Kalamazoo is now charged with killing him. Isaiah Willhite was arraigned yesterday on a felon...
Dec 21, 2023 Rumble Press / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County Opioid Task Force up and running
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo County's new Opioid Task Force is up and running and preparing to dole out millions of dollars to local agencies fighting the addictions that have caused well o...
Dec 21, 2023 Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County, Portage pass resolutions for peace
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Kalamazoo County commission has taken a stand on the Israel - Hamas war, and the Portage city council did too, sort of. The county board split 5 to 3 on the resolutio...
Dec 20, 2023 Kalamazoo County Government logo
Former youth counselors sentenced for teen's death in 2020
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A judge has sentenced two former youth counselors to 18 months probation after they pled no contest in March to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Corne...
Dec 20, 2023 Patrick Feller / CC
AUDIO: Portage citizen task force on developments over
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Portage's mayor is pulling the plug on a citizen's task force formed last year when citizen opposition to proposed developments near Austin Lake erupted. It has also been a...
Dec 20, 2023 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo commissioners approve Israel-Hamas ceasefire resolution
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo city officials have approved a resolution calling for a cease fire in the Israeli Hamas war, after weeks of demands that they take a stand. They join several ot...
Dec 19, 2023
AUDIO: Kalamazoo raising water, sewer rates
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo city commissioners have unanimously approved water and sewer rate hikes again, and are urging residents who may not be able to afford overdue bills to seek help...
Dec 19, 2023
Funding requests being taken for 2024 Kalamazoo County Housing Millage allocations
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An online portal has been opened for developers and nonprofits to apply for funding from the Kalamazoo County Housing Millage, to help fund affordable housing projects. Th...
Dec 19, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo County)
