Category Archives: Top News Stories
New health center poised to serve 1,800 Loy Norrix High School students
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Students at Kalamazoo's Loy Norrix High School will soon have an opportunity to seek personal and mental health services at a new, school-based health center funded by the...
May 17, 2023 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix High School (photo courtesy of Kalamazoo Public Schools)
Kalamazoo County Prosecutor to announce fund to help protect cyclists at Kalamazoo bike rodeo tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As a part of the 12th Annual Kalamazoo Bike Week, Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney, and Silent Observer Board Member Jeff Getting is set to participate in the City of...
May 17, 2023
AUDIO: Kalamazoo city leaders pledge to make fixing Graphic Packaging pollution problem a top priority
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Now that State Health officials have identified the pollution problem at Graphic Packaging, Kalamazoo City leaders are pledging to do what they can to fix it. The report r...
May 17, 2023 (Photo provided by John McNeill)
Moped rider injured in crash on I-94 near Sprinkle Road late Tuesday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Eastbound I-94 in Kalamazoo was closed for several hours overnight after a person riding a moped was struck by another vehicle near Sprinkle Road in the construction zone....
May 17, 2023
Multiple shootings on Mother's Day result in one killed and three others injured
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It was a violent Mother's Day Sunday in Kalamazoo according to KDPS officials who say three shootings occurred within a span of less than three hours, with one killed, and...
May 16, 2023 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
19-year-old Kalamazoo resident sustaining gunshot wound to the head in May 11 shooting dies
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officials say a Kalamazoo resident involved in a shooting last week on Thursday, May 11 has died. According to KDPS, 19-year-old Omar...
May 16, 2023
Local radio legend Bob Salmon (Bob King) passes away at home at age 81
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo radio veteran Bob Salmon (Bob King) has died. The announcement of Salmons' death was made on Tuesday, May 16. Salmon spent 20 years in Kalamazoo on the radio and...
May 16, 2023 Local Kalamazoo radio legend Bob Salmon, (Bob King) passed away at age 81 on Sunday, May 14, at his home in Modesto CA.
Man apparently upset over prior visit threatens security personnel at Acension Borgess Hospital
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man threatening security personnel at Acension Borgess Hospital Tuesday morning was arrested without any injuries. Around 8:30 a.m. the Township of Kalamazoo Po...
May 16, 2023 Beacon Kalamazoo Hospital, formerly Ascension Borgess
Police say at-fault driver in U.S. 131 crash Saturday has passed away
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says a vehicle that crashed on southbound U.S. 131 near Stadium Drive in Oshtemo Township Saturday was traveling at a high rate of sp...
May 16, 2023 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
City of Kalamazoo seeking more social equity in the local cannabis industry
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Social equity was one of the items promised when Michigan voters were asked to make recreational marijuana legal, but little has been done to realize that promise. Kalamaz...
May 16, 2023 (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
