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WMed awarded $2.48 million federal grant to enhance mental and behavioral health training for pediatric residents
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) has been awarded a five-year, $2.48 millio...
Jan 17, 2023
Southwest MI schools to benefit from 25 million in funding for school resource officers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced on Tuesday, January 17 that 195 school districts, intermediate school districts, and public-school academies will get nearly $25 milli...
Jan 17, 2023 Pictures of Money / CC
AUDIO: Validity of Kalamazoo Schools Foundation in question as KPS trustees work to move forward in 2023
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- At the center of the debate over the resignation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools former superintendent, and the firing of her second-in-command is the attempt to create a...
Jan 17, 2023 Kalamazoo Public School Kalamazoo Promise sign (courtesy John McNeill)
Kalamazoo City Commissioners plan to "restart" search for new city attorney
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo City Commissioners plan to start their search for a new City Attorney all over again, now that the candidate they picked for the job has withdrawn his name. It ...
Jan 17, 2023 Kalamazoo City Commission at their meeting Oct. 3, 2022
12-year-old detained for allegedly setting fires at Kalamazoo Township school
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Township of Kalamazoo Police Department officers have detained a 12-year-old Kalamazoo County male they say was setting fires in an occupied school building and ...
Jan 16, 2023 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Burlington Township woman loses her life in Calhoun County crash
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A 72-year-old Burlington Township woman lost her life on Monday morning after her vehicle went off of K Drive South near 6 Mile Road and crashed into a tree. The Calh...
Jan 16, 2023 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Schools leadership laser focused on bright 2023 during transition
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- As we first reported earlier last week, the Kalamazoo Schools Interim Superintendent says she intends to carry on the initiatives of her predecessor, and put the focus ba...
Jan 16, 2023 Interim Superintendent Cindy Green says the district will continue their efforts to turn out academically proficient graduates with an emphasis on better communications.
Kalamazoo's new look school board, with new faces, new titles and new challenges. (Graph image provided by John McNeill)
Errant gunfire causes natural gas leak
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is still looking for the person who fired shots that caused a natural gas leak Sunday At approximately 3:15 p.m., officers respon...
Jan 15, 2023
Calhoun County deputies arrest Sturgis woman in arson investigation
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A Sturgis woman has been taken into custody in connection with an alleged Calhoun County arson last week. The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office detectives got information on W...
Jan 13, 2023 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Candlelight vigil to be held for missing Portage mother of 8
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A candlelight vigil is being held for the missing Portage mother of eight children on Sunday, January 15. Family members say the vigil is set to take place at Biggby Coff...
Jan 13, 2023
