Category Archives: Top News Stories
Kalamazoo Beer Exchange, which priced beer like stock market prices, set to close this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A restaurant and bar in downtown Kalamazoo is set to close its doors for good this weekend. After 15 years of beer prices that rose and fell every 15 minutes based on dema...
Dec 18, 2025
KDPS investigates non-fatal shooting and armed robbery in two separate incidents
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says officers responded to two separate violent incidents Tuesday night, including a non-fatal shooting and an unrelated armed ro...
Dec 18, 2025 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Bronson BirthPlace says Theodore and Violet are their top names for this year
KALAMAZOO, M (WKZO AM/FM) - Theodore and Violet top the list of Bronson BirthPlace's most popular baby names of 2025. Bronson welcomed more than 4,500 newborns in 2025, bringing with them a fresh list...
Dec 17, 2025
One injured with shots fired on Kalamazoo's Vanzee Street early Wednesday morning
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One man was injured after reports of gunfire early Wednesday morning in Kalamazoo. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says around 3:45 a.m. dispatch received multip...
Dec 17, 2025 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County gets anonymous donation for more housing
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It is the season for giving and Kalamazoo County has just gotten a transformational gift to address its affordable housing crisis. The county has received a $23.3-million ...
Dec 17, 2025 Pictures of Money / CC
Almost 2,500 Kalamazoo area kids to take part in Toy Shop Toy Distribution today and tomorrow
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Thousands of children and families in the Kalamazoo area will get an early Christmas present the next two days, with the The Salvation Army of Kalamazoo's annual Toy Shop ...
Dec 17, 2025 The Salvation Army of Kalamazoo Toy Shop (courtesy of The Salvation Army of Kalamazoo)
Suspect who police say shot up a Kalamazoo restaurant arraigned on 25 felony counts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The suspect in a September shooting that injured five at a Kalamazoo restaurant was arraigned on 25 felony counts Tuesday. 19-year-old Na'Ledge Quincy Lovon Williams Chamb...
Dec 16, 2025 Naledge Quincy Lovon Williams Chamberlain (courtesy KDPS)
KVET arrests suspect after shots fired from moving vehicle on Gull Road
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A suspect is in custody after police say he fired into the parking lot of a Gull Road party store from a moving vehicle in Kalamazoo Township. Last Friday around ...
Dec 16, 2025 zimmytws / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: KDPS Chief Boysen talks about two deaths in Kalamazoo in past week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The discovery of two people found dead outside in Kalamazoo in the last week and the colder temperatures, once again has homeless advocates demanding the city do more to h...
Dec 16, 2025
Huizenga Announces Reelection Intentions
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Dec. 16, 2025) - Bill Huizenga apparently wants to continue making regular trips to Washington. Whether voters in southwest Michigan will vote to have him do so remains to be ...
Dec 16, 2025 US House Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland) (photo Gary Stevens, Midwest Communications)
