Category Archives: Top News Stories
Portage to hold Portage Road 360 Community Celebration on Thursday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage will hold a Portage Road 360 Community Celebration this Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Portage Zhang Senior Center at 203 East Centre Avenue. It wil...
Sep 22, 2025
Four shot near Western Michigan University
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is investigating a shooting that sent four people to the hospital around 3:15 Saturday morning near Western Michigan University's campus. The shots...
Sep 22, 2025 New location for Two Fellas Grill at 2730 W. Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo. (Photo by Will Kriss).
Portage city council to vote Tuesday on land, equipment purchases for new Farmer's Market
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is getting ready to start work on the new Farmer's Market and need to make a land purchase immediately. A city memo states they need to buy three-hundred...
Sep 22, 2025 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
AUDIO: Kalamazoo Public Safety ends participation in national camera system
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - When faced with complaints about officers wearing masks, Kalamazoo Public Safety immediately changed their policy and ended the practice this summer. New complains about r...
Sep 22, 2025 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
South Haven gets governmental immunity in 2020 drowning lawsuit
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of South Haven has received governmental immunity from an appeals court in a wrongful death lawsuit from a 2020 drowning. The mother of Brandon Chambers, who di...
Sep 19, 2025 (Photo courtesy of South Haven Area Emergency Services via Facebook)
Kalamazoo authorities arrest 15-year-old with gun
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 15-year-old boy has been arrested this week by Kalamazoo Public Safety officers when he was found carrying a gun with an extended magazine. Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement ...
Sep 19, 2025
MDOT: West Main Street construction project wraps up
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Transportation and contractor Hoffman Brothers Incorporated have wrapped up work on West Main Street between Drake Road and US-131 in Kalamazoo....
Sep 19, 2025
AUDIO: Several events happening this weekend in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Labor Day may be in the rear view mirror and fall official begins on Monday, but there will still be things to do this weekend in Kalamazoo. The 3rd annual Canadiana Fest,...
Sep 18, 2025 Bernt Rostad / CC
AUDIO: Gryphon Place holding suicide march Saturday in downtown Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - September is suicide prevention month, and you will be able to do something about it this weekend. It is one of the causes of death that is rising, some 37% for the first ...
Sep 18, 2025
Decline in total traffic crashes continues in City of Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Traffic data from the first seven months of 2025 shows crashes in Kalamazoo are declining, and city officials are crediting their Streets for All program for making the di...
Sep 18, 2025 (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
