Category Archives: Top News Stories
Kalamazoo officials say crashes are lower downtown with new street layout
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo says crashes are down on Michigan Avenue downtown between Main and Harrison streets are down for August through October of this year compared to the ...
Nov 08, 2023
Shots fired at Oshtemo Township apartment
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputies are investigating shots being fired early Wednesday morning. It happened just after 12:30 a.m. at Evergreen South Apartments in ...
Nov 08, 2023 Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office SUV cruiser and K9 unit (Photo by John McNeil)
Kalamazoo County election results
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - David Anderson was re-elected to another two year term as Kalamazoo mayor, defeating challenger John Allen 7,060-1,843 in Tuesday's General Election. Current city commissi...
Nov 08, 2023 hjl / CC
Police say the man who shot a woman in Kalamazoo Township Friday night also took his on life
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police say a man who died in a shooting incident in the Lakeview Apartments complex in Kalamazoo Township took his own life after shooting a woman late Friday nig...
Nov 07, 2023 Crime scene tape
AUDIO: Survivors and advocates of domestic violence celebrate bill passage
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Survivors and advocates celebrated the recent passage of legislation that keep guns out of the hands of convicted domestic violence offenders for 8 years. For some, like ...
Nov 07, 2023 sugarfrizz / CC
AUDIO: Graphics Packaging blaming city, in part, for emissions
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Graphics Packaging is now blaming the city of Kalamazoo for at least being partly responsible for the gas emissions blowing into the north side of the city. The claim cam...
Nov 07, 2023 Photo from Graphic Packaging's Facebook page.
Suspect arraigned in shooting death of Kalamazoo man Saturday afternoon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police have a suspect in custody after a Saturday shooting that led to the 20th homicide of the year in Kalamazoo. At approximately 12:25 p.m., officers with the Kalamazoo...
Nov 06, 2023 The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety arrested Laquay Lee Woodford-
Paige Nov. 4, 2023 (courtesy of John McNeill)
Police say one-year-old Kalamazoo child believed to have been abused has died from the injuries
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A one-year-old child from Kalamazoo who police believe was abused has died due to significant injuries it sustained. According to a release from the Kalamazoo Department o...
Nov 06, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety logo
AUDIO: Ranked Choice Voting on city of Kalamazoo ballot
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Besides deciding on who will sit on the Kalamazoo City Commission tomorrow, city voters will also be asked if the city should again change how they are elected. A statewid...
Nov 06, 2023 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Two suspects arrested after home invasion robbery Kalamazoo County's Pavilion Township Sunday night
PAVILION TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two suspects that police say were involved in a Kalamazoo County home invasion robbery Sunday night are now in custody. Around 9:00 p.m. Sunday Kalamazoo County Sh...
Nov 06, 2023 (Photo by John McNeil).
