Category Archives: Top News Stories
Proposed battery storage site in Comstock Township stirring controversy
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A proposed Battery Energy Storage System is continuing to create controversy in Comstock Township. Comstock Public Schools superintendent Jeff Thoenes says the sch...
Aug 29, 2025 (courtesy Comstock Township)
City of Portage answers considers about garbage rates, recycling
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The City of Portage is refuting claims made by a local woman that their embattled new single hauler garbage contract will cost her more and provide less service. Linda Owens...
Aug 28, 2025 Portage City Hall seal. (Photo by John McNeil).
Feeding Broncos hosts free barbecue dinner for WMU students on Labor Day
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University student organization Feeding Broncos will be hosting a free barbecue chicken and baby back rib dinner Labor Day, Monday, September 1 from 5...
Aug 28, 2025
One person dead and five injured after crash on US 131 in Allegan County's Wayland Township
WAYLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One person is dead after a two vehicle crash Wednesday morning on US 131 in Allegan County's Wayland Township. Just before 5:30 a.m. Allegan Central Dispatch received multip...
Aug 27, 2025
Residents still upset with Portage's single trash hauler deal
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage city council is still taking complaints about plans to convert their waste hauling service to a single contractor. Residents like Leah Owens are angry. She says ...
Aug 27, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
State House approves $78-billion budget
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan House has passed a $78-billion budget for Fiscal Year 2026 on a 59-to-45 vote to set up negotiations with the state Senate, which passed its budget this spring....
Aug 27, 2025 (courtesy of State Representative Jennifer Wortz)
Charges now authorized for 2018 murder in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A longtime unsolved murder case in Portage might now finally be solved. May 23, 2018, the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office initiated an investigation into the disappearance...
Aug 26, 2025 nito103 / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: Day one of weapon detection system at KPS goes smoothly
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Schools have opened for the academic year with weapon detection systems in place at all of its middle and high schools. Superintendent Darrin Slade pushed...
Aug 26, 2025 Kalamazoo Central High School - Google Street View
Pay might rise for Portage City Council
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Portage City Council could get a raise. The Local Officers Compensation Commission is recommending a 9.4% increase for council members and a 13.6% increase for the mayor...
Aug 26, 2025 Portage, Michigan City Hall sign (courtesy of City of Portage)
After cold case was reopened, suspect arrested in 2023 Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man has been arrested in Florida after detectives on a cold case team with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety identified him as the suspect in a September 2023 mu...
Aug 25, 2025
