Category Archives: Top News Stories
Kalamazoo Public School teachers want better pay in new contract
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Members of the Kalamazoo Education Association teacher's union turned out to picket the Kalamazoo Public Schools board meeting last night, and made it clear they want a be...
Sep 26, 2025
AUDIO: Tentative deal reached on Fiscal Year 2026 state budget
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - At long last, a state budget framework is in place in Lansing with critical public funding on the line of an October 1st deadline. Governor Gretchen Whitmer, along with Hous...
Sep 26, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Kalamazoo's Two Fellas Grill hires security, changes hours after shooting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Fellas Grill just off the campus of Western Michigan University is hiring security and cutting its hours after four people were shot and injured outside the location S...
Sep 25, 2025 New location for Two Fellas Grill at 2730 W. Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo. (Photo by Will Kriss).
Council votes to purchase shelters for new Portage Farmer's Market
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage City Council has selected land next to the Portage Zhang Senior Center for a new farmers market. Construction of three open-air pavilions and a new parking lot i...
Sep 25, 2025 An artist rendering of the new Portage Farmers Market (courtesy City of Portage)
KDPS arrests wanted juvenile, recovers stolen guns at Fox Ridge Apartments
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says a 16-year-old male is in custody and multiple stolen firearms were recovered during an investigation at an apartment in the ...
Sep 24, 2025 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
AUDIO: Portage weighing helping city employees with down payments for homes
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is considering a program to help its employees with down payment assistance for homes because some of them can no longer afford to live in the city. It's...
Sep 24, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
Kalamazoo could face ice shortage soon
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo could be facing an ice shortage in a few years. Not the kind you drop in your drinks, but the kind you skate on. Portage city councilmember Nicole Miller brought u...
Sep 24, 2025 K Wings fall to Toledo in historic Rainbow Ice game (photo by Jim McKinney)
Court documents: Man told juvenile relative to start Otsego fire
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Court documents say 37-year-old Michael Kilbourn of Otsego told a juvenile to set a play structure on fire in Otsego just after midnight on September 2nd. Kilbourn was arrai...
Sep 24, 2025
MHSAA releases statement on Kalamazoo Central - Lakeshore JV football game
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan High School Athletic Association has released a statement about the junior varsity football game Thursday between Kalamazoo Central High School and Lakeshore ...
Sep 23, 2025
Four people arrested by KVET in gun violence, drug distribution investigation
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four people are in the Kalamazoo County Jail after two search warrants were executed last Thursday by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and Crime Reduction Team. They ...
Sep 23, 2025
