Category Archives: Top News Stories
AUDIO: New wrinkle for Portage farmer's market site
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Another twist has been thrown into Portage's year long search for a home for an expanded Farmer's Market. The city council was set to move forward with a facility next to t...
Nov 02, 2023
Cassopolis woman injured in Cass County crash
NEWBERG TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A 25-year-old Cassopolis woman is hospitalized at Three Rivers Health Hospital after being injured in a crash on M-60 near Wood Lake Road in Cass County's Newberg ...
Nov 01, 2023
Man convicted of Kalamazoo killing
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death last November of 21-year-old Bryce Salter in Kalamazoo. A jury convicted Damien Lang yesterday. He will be...
Oct 31, 2023 Blogtrepreneur / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County Sheriff deputies investigating firefighter gear theft
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of thousands of dollars worth of a Comstock Township firefighter's gear from his vehicle in the Me...
Oct 31, 2023
UAW reaches tentative contract deal with all three Detroit automakers
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The United Auto Workers strike is over at all three Detroit automakers. The union reached a tentative deal last week with Ford, got a tentative agreement with Stellantis ove...
Oct 30, 2023 Clyde Robinson / CC
AUDIO: Battle Creek man shot, killed in Kalamazoo; Mayor responds to recent gun violence
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Authorities have still not released the name of a Calhoun County man who was shot in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood early Sunday morning. Officers responded at about 2:00...
Oct 30, 2023 Robert Nelson / CC
Michigan's average gas price down nine cents this week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gas price is now $3.31 a gallon, down nine cents in the past week and to their lowest level since March. AAA Michigan says the price is down 37 in the pa...
Oct 30, 2023
Battle Creek man dead after early Sunday morning shooting in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An early Sunday morning shooting in Kalamazoo has left a 23-year-old Battle Creek man dead. At approximately 2:07 a.m., Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers resp...
Oct 29, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
UPDATE: One-year-old hospitalized in apparent abuse incident
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police say two people they believe were involved in abusing a one-year-old from Kalamazoo has been found. At approximately 5:00 a.m. Saturday officers with the Kalamazoo D...
Oct 28, 2023
Police make arrest in the May 2023 shooting death of a Kalamazoo man
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Authorities have made an arrest in the shooting death of a 33-year-old Kalamazoo man this spring. Marcus Pierce was shot and killed in the 500 block of Ada Street May 14, ...
Oct 28, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser. (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
