Category Archives: Top News Stories
Portage Public Schools starts tutoring program for homeless students
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A tutoring program to help homeless students has been launched by Portage Public Schools as the number of them has risen from 92 in 2017 to 146 now. The district's coordinat...
Dec 07, 2023 Portage Public Schools logo courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
BC house fire that killed four cats under investigation by Fire Marshal
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A house fire in the 100 block of Pleasant Avenue early Thursday morning that took the lives of four cats remains under investigation by the Battle Creek Fire Marshal's o...
Dec 07, 2023 Battle Creek Fire department (Photo by John McNeil)
Nazareth, MI Post Office continues holiday pictorial postmark after more than 100 years
NAZARETH, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A small post office in Kalamazoo County will keep a tradition of over 100 years alive, offering a Special Holiday Pictorial Postmark to customers from around the world. In ...
Dec 07, 2023 (courtesy United States Postal Service)
LEO awards over $1.3 million to Kalamazoo Defender, Inc. to help expand services
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo-based non-profit that handles public defender services for the county court system has been awarded $1.3 million from the state to expand mental health service...
Dec 06, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo Defender, Inc.)
Allegan County Sheriff's Office gets body armor donation for K9 Knox
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Allegan County Sheriff's Office has received a bullet and stab protective vest for K9 Knox from the nonprofit Vested Interest in K9s Incorporated. The organization has ...
Dec 06, 2023
AUDIO: Portage eliminates other possible locations for new Farmers Market
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The city of Portage will be focusing on vacant lots near their new Senior Center for a new Farmers Market, after eliminating all the other possible options. City Manager Pa...
Dec 06, 2023 Gemma Billings / CC
AUDIO: Portage City Council approves tax break for housing development
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Portage City Council has approved granting a sizable tax break to River Caddis, a moderate income housing project proposed to be built right near City Hall. There is a ...
Dec 06, 2023 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Comstock Township farm suing township
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Soil Friends LLC is suing Comstock Township and township officials in federal court over alleged constitutional and civil rights violations. Farm co-owner Benjami...
Dec 05, 2023 Kevin Smith / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commissioner wants ceasefire resolution
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo City Commissioner Don Cooney says the city should join other Michigan communities that have called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas now that the fightin...
Dec 05, 2023 City of Kalamazoo commissioner Don Cooney (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo sets public hearing on water, sewer rate increases
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The latest proposal to raise water rates in Kalamazoo has also raised hackles with some members of the public, but the city says it will do what it can to help poor resid...
Dec 05, 2023
