Category Archives: Top News Stories
City of Kalamazoo hosting food drive to benefit Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo is hosting a food drive from Wednesday, November 12th through Thursday, November 20th. The drive was organized in response to increasing food insecur...
Nov 10, 2025
KVET arrests man on drug, gun charges
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team has arrested a 27-year-old Kalamazoo man for drug possession and illegal weapon possession. Officers executed a search warrant on Tue...
Nov 10, 2025
Michigan's U.S. senators vote no on bill to end shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin both voted against the bill that passed to start reopening the federal government. Peters says he voted against th...
Nov 10, 2025 Ron Cogswell / CC
AUDIO: Not everyone happy with proposed Oshtemo Township housing project
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new housing project has been proposed in Oshtemo Township, which would normally be an occasion for celebration during this housing crisis, but not everyone is happy with...
Nov 10, 2025 Kalamazoo County Government logo
Suspect in custody after Comstock Township murder
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Few details have been released in a shooting death in Kalamazoo County's Comstock late Friday night. Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority received 911 ...
Nov 08, 2025
New southbound off ramp for the U.S. 131 Business Loop unveiled
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - They snipped the ribbon Friday morning on the new southbound off ramp for the U.S. 131 Business Loop. The $24 million dollar project makes the intersection, which had only...
Nov 07, 2025 (photo courtesy of John McNeill)
AUDIO: Parchment's second annual Veterans Day ceremony to be held November 11 at 11 a.m.
PARCHMENT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Veterans Day ceremony will be held in Parchment on Tuesday, November 11 at 11 a.m. Parchment United Methodist Church pastor Joe Shaler is putting it on for the second st...
Nov 07, 2025 City of Parchment welcome sign - Brandon James/WKZO
AUDIO: New El Sol Elementary will expand to include 6th through 8th grades
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Public Schools board has decided to not only give El Sol Elementary a new home in Kalamazoo Township, but expand the program to include middle schoolers. Las...
Nov 07, 2025
Two Kalamazoo men arrested for illegal weapons violations
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two men are in the Kalamazoo County Jail after they were arrested Monday by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and Crime Reduction Team on several illegal weapon...
Nov 06, 2025
Groups to hold Veterans Day event at Fort Custer National Cemetery despite government shutdown
ROSS TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Veterans Day ceremony will be held at Fort Custer National Cemetery regardless if the federal government shutdown ends by November 11. Fort Custer National Cemetery ...
Nov 06, 2025 Fort Custer National Cemetery sign (courtesy of Fort Custer National Cemetery Facebook page)
