Category Archives: Top News Stories
Battle Creek man sentenced to prison for fatal drunk driving crash
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Battle Creek man is on his way to prison for driving drunk and killing another man. Jose Cavazos was sentenced to 29 months to 15 years on Monday, May 16, in Kalamazoo ...
May 17, 2022 Best Law
The $50 million redevelopment project for the former Allied Paper dumpsite in Kalamazoo underway
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's Mayor is declaring victory in the decades-long struggle to convert the Allied Paper dumpsite from a contaminated eyesore into a community asset. There is still...
May 17, 2022 The redevelopment plan for the former Allied Paper dumpsite in Kalamazoo (courtesy of the City of Kalamazoo)
Construction site concerns put WMU's new Student Services Center on hold for four days
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Originally scheduled for a fall 2022 opening, officials say the date for Western Michigan University's new Student Services Center may, or may not be adjusted. According t...
May 17, 2022
8 adults and 2 juveniles arrested for mobile nuisance party activities
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Police arresting 10 people over the weekend, with two of them being minors, for their part in what they call Mobile Nuisance Party A...
May 16, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Two motorcyclists die after being hit from behind by car
CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Cass County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal crash which occurred at the intersection of US 12 and Baldwin Prairie Road in Porter Township on Monday, May 1...
May 16, 2022 Photo courtesy of the Cass County Sheriff's Office.
Local economic development official decries lack of industrial building sites, skilled workers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo area will be facing challenges if it hopes to grow and thrive as an industrial center. That's according to the new director of Southwest Michigan First, who ...
May 16, 2022
New senior center set to open this Friday in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After nearly 19 months of construction, the Charles and Lynn Zhang Portage Community Senior Center is set to open. The public ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the gran...
May 16, 2022 An architect's rendering of the Charles and Lynn Zhang Portage Community Senior Center (courtesy of AVB Inc)
Upton looking into answers on why shutdown of Sturgis Abbott Nutrition facility has lasted so long
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) - Southwest Michigan Congressman Fred Upton is seeking answers on why it took so long to inspect and return to production a baby formula factory in Sturgis. The shutdown o...
May 14, 2022 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Kalamazoo man shot in the back overnight, KDPS still seeking suspect
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An early Saturday morning shooting has left a 52-year-old Kalamazoo man with non-life threatening injuries. Around 1:40 a.m. Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Officers...
May 14, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Larry J Bell Library Foundation to take over former Food Dance building in downtown Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The former home of the Food Dance restaurant in Kalamazoo has a new owner with a familiar name. The Larry J Bell Library Foundation has announced plans to purchase the bui...
May 13, 2022 Bell's Brewery founder and President Larry Bell (courtesy of Bell's Brewery)
