Category Archives: Top News Stories
Portage partnering with City Wise Software on rental website
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage and City Wise Software are partnering to launch a new website to make it easier for landlords to list properties and residents to be able to find somewhe...
Oct 24, 2025 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes prepared to help is SNAP benefits are curtailed due to federal government shutdown
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In Kalamazoo County, there are 35,183 recipients of SNAP benefits, including 39% who are under the age of 18, and they are in danger of losing those food benefits if the f...
Oct 23, 2025
AUDIO: Portage rejects deal with Kalamazoo County for emergency management staffer
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage city council has rejected a deal worked out between city and Kalamazoo County officials to share an emergency manager, saying they want that person focused on th...
Oct 23, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Fuel Wood Harvest begins next month in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Portage is now accepting applications for Fuel Wood Harvest Permits as part of the city's Timber Harvest Program, which launches November 1. City officials say t...
Oct 23, 2025 (courtesy City of Portage)
Calhoun County deputies seize 68 dogs in animal cruelty investigation
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - 68 dogs have been surrendered to the Calhoun County Animal Shelter by a 68-year-old Newton Township woman. The county sheriff's office responded to her home in the 8...
Oct 22, 2025 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Kalamazoo County Fair might return in August 2026
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It looks like the Kalamazoo County Fair might just make a comeback next summer. Last night, the county board authorized staff to find somebody or someway to organize a fai...
Oct 22, 2025 Kalamazoo County Youth Fair and Family Festival logo
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board approves 2026 budget
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It came down to the home stretch, but the Kalamazoo County commission has approved its 2026 budget. Commissioners and staff were tying up loose ends right up until the fin...
Oct 22, 2025 jittawit.21 / Depositphotos.com
Anonymous $1.52 million gift to WMed will expand access to child and adolescent psychiatry care in Southwest Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials with the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine say a recent $1.52 million gift from anonymous donors in the Kalamazoo community will ...
Oct 21, 2025 (courtesy Western Michigan University)
AUDIO: Malcolm Hankins selected as Kalamazoo's next city manager
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Kalamazoo will open contract negotiations with Des Moines Assistant City Manager Malcolm Hankins to be their next city manager. It was a close vote by the city...
Oct 21, 2025
YWCA Kalamazoo warns of service reductions with new state budget, appealing to community for funding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials with YWCA Kalamazoo say they are facing major cuts from the Michigan state budget passed earlier this month, and they say that puts lives are on the line. "For a...
Oct 20, 2025 Maryland GovPics / CC
