Category Archives: Top News Stories
Thousands without power, tornado reported near Williamston, as storm hits Michigan and Ohio
WILLIAMSTON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Nearly 700,000 homes and businesses in Michigan and Ohio are without power after severe thunderstorms slammed the region with heavy rains, powerful winds, and at least o...
Aug 25, 2023 Ian Livesey
KDPS investigating suspicious deaths of two people as homicides
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - On Wednesday August 23, it was reported that the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety was investigating what they were calling a suspicious death from the night before on...
Aug 24, 2023 Alan Cleaver / CC
Representative Rogers completes regional leadership institute
LOMBARD, IL (WKZO AM/FM) - State Rep. Julie M. Rogers (D-Kalamazoo) was among 37 select lawmakers to complete a leadership training program that identifies and assists emerging state and provincial le...
Aug 24, 2023 Michigan state Sen. Roger Victory, left, and Illinois state (Rep. Anna Moeller, right, present a certificate of completion to Rogers)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Schools increasing staff to support social and mental wellbeing
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Schools will be beefing up their efforts to look after the social and mental wellbeing of students this fall, thanks to additional state funding, grant money, an...
Aug 24, 2023
New hub for WMU to make college life easier to navigate for first-time students
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There will be a new feature on the campus of Western Michigan University this fall. WMU officials say the new Student Success Hub should make being a student easier by ser...
Aug 23, 2023 (Photo by John McNeil).
Second detection this year of West Nile Virus reported in Kalamazoo County
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There's been another detection of West Nile Virus in Kalamazoo County. This is according to the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department's Environmental...
Aug 23, 2023 Enrique Dans / CC
KDPS looking into "suspicious death" discovered Tuesday evening
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Few details are being released, but the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is investigating what's described as a "suspicious death" which was discovered Tuesday evenin...
Aug 23, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety . (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Motorist critically hurt in Otsego crash
OTSEGO TWP., MI (WKZO-AM/FM, WHTC-AM/FM) - A 64-year-old man was critically hurt in a head-on crash involving a sedan and a semi on M-89 near Otsego on Tuesday night, Aug. 22, 2023). No names were giv...
Aug 23, 2023
Extreme and dangerous heatwave to hit Southwest MI Wednesday/Thursday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Extreme heat is set to move back into Southwest Michigan on Wednesday, August 23. And forecasters say that heat will bring with it 'feel like' temperatures of 100 degrees ...
Aug 22, 2023 Sunset in the city, summer sunset on the highway cars. Close up from car side mirror. Hot day. (Photo courtesy of AAA).
Kalamazoo City Commission approves plan, tax breaks, to spur construction of affordable housing
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo City Commission Monday night approved a tax break for one senior housing project, and made $1 million loan to another. They also created Neighborhood Enterpr...
Aug 22, 2023 City Planner Christina Anderson and development consultant Joe Agostinelli address the Kalamazoo City Commission at their meeting Aug 21, 2023 (courtesy John McNeill)
