Category Archives: Top News Stories
KDPS chief urging no retaliation for Kalamazoo teen's murder this week
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief David Boysen says investigators do not yet know if 17-year-old Markii Robinson Jr. was the intended target in his shooting deat...
Jun 09, 2023 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Dave Boysen at the City Commission meeting May 1, 2023 (courtesy John McNeill)
County Health Director raises sanitary code concerns about proposed pod community site in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It appears an effort to create a pod community in Kalamazoo, which has been on hold for two years, may face several other problems. Kalamazoo County Health and Community S...
Jun 08, 2023 The interior of one of the pods for homeless housing in Kalamazoo County (courtesy Housing Resources Incorporated
UPDATED: Kalamazoo teen dies in Wednesday afternoon shooting, suspect vehicle found
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo teen has died from wounds received in a shooting incident Wednesday afternoon. At 2:55 p.m. officers from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded t...
Jun 07, 2023 Crime scene tape
Graphic Packaging, City of Kalamazoo, and elected officials named in lawsuit that alleges environmental racism, and even one death, because of pollution
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A class action lawsuit has been filed today seeking civil damages and compensation because of the pollution coming from Graphic Packaging International and the City of Kal...
Jun 07, 2023 The remodeled and expanded Graphic Packaging facility at Patterson and Pitcher is now one of the largest paperboard recycling plants in North America. (Photo provided by John McNeill)
Residents protest potential Portage housing projects, city officials confirm plans have been filed
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - City of Portage officials may know a lot more than they were willing to discuss when they were faced with a room full of angry residents who want to shut down plans for two ...
Jun 07, 2023 (courtesy City of Portage)
Kalamazoo City Commissioners review plan designed to curb gun violence
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Kalamazoo now has a game plan to curb gun violence, and someone to help put it in place. City Commissioners got their look at the plan at their meeting on Mond...
Jun 07, 2023 Kalamazoo Community Foundation V.P. Jen Heymoss laid out her strategy for reducing gun violence to Commissioners on Monday, June 5. (Photo from John McNeill)
Kalamazoo County's groundbreaking program to fight crime recognized by Michigan Attorney General
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - For centuries the go-to solution for crime was jail. But now, Kalamazoo County's groundbreaking program to fight crime using cognitive behavioral modification, has gone st...
Jun 07, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Van Buren County man involved in New Year's Day fatal shooting pleads guilty to felony firearms
VAN BUREN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Van Buren County man who allegedly killed two people by celebratory gunfire on New Year's Day pleadi guilty to a charge of felony weapons last Thursday, June 1. 6...
Jun 06, 2023 (Photo of Christopher Toppenberg provided by the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office)
Despite some public pushback, City of Kalamazoo moving ahead with pilot program for downtown surveillance cameras
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo City Commission has approved a pilot program to increase the efficiency of video surveillance cameras downtown, but will put off funding a full activation of...
Jun 06, 2023 About a dozen people June 5, 2023 asked Kalamazoo City Commissioners to reject or delay plans for a downtown surveillance system, Several refused to give their names and this man refused to reveal his face (courtesy John McNeill)
Wear Orange event at Kalamazoo's Bronson Park honors lives of those affected by gun violence
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With Governor Gretchen Whitmer signing into law a number of gun safety measures for Michigan, gun violence awareness or "Wear Orange" events have been taking place all acr...
Jun 05, 2023 Rick Omilian, Kalamazoo Moms Demand Action lead, Kalamazoo Be SMART program lead for secure firearm storage information and gun violence survivor whose daughter was murdered in 1999, welcomes community members to Kalamazoo's Wear Orange event held at Bronson Park on Monday, June 5. (Photo by Jerry Malec)
