Category Archives: Top News Stories
City of Portage offering eGift card promotion to help businesses
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Portage is encouraging residents to support local businesses with the purchase of a limited time Buy One, Get 50% in Bonus Value Portage Pocket Pay eGift card pr...
Jul 01, 2025
Motorcyclist badly injured in crash
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 53-year-old Portage man is hospitalized in critical condition after a motorcycle accident Monday. Portage Public Safety says he was southbound on Shaver Road when he colli...
Jul 01, 2025 Portage Police cruiser (photo by John McNeil)
Portage Public Schools will ask voters to approve $132.4 million bond issue in November
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage Public Schools will seek voter approval for a $132.4 million bond issue in November to complete the district's two-decade effort to replace the oldest elementary sch...
Jun 30, 2025
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board to vote on starting negotiations over youth sports facility board
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo's new youth sports facility will need its own independent board to build and run the west side facility, under the state law that will fund its construction. The...
Jun 30, 2025
Kalamazoo County courthouse needed $400,000 duct work repair
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The new Kalamazoo County courthouse opened a year and a half ago, and some tweaks have been required during the five-story building's shakedown period. The biggest fix cam...
Jun 30, 2025 (Photo of what the new Kalamazoo County Justice Center will look like upon completion)
Today is last day on job for Portage Public Schools superintendent
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Today will be the last official day on the job for Portage Public Schools superintendent Mark Bielang after a dozen years in the post. He is retiring and told the Portage ci...
Jun 30, 2025 Portage Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bielang (courtesy of Portage Public Schools)
Two injured in Allegan County UTV accident Saturday night
CLYDE TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A single-vehicle crash involving a utility terrain vehicle southeast of Fennville Saturday night hospitalized its two occupants. The crash happened around 10:20 p.m. ...
Jun 29, 2025
Kalamazoo teen injured in overnight shooting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An early morning shooting Saturday injured a Kalamazoo teen. At 1:33 a.m., officers from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to Bronson Hospital after a 15...
Jun 28, 2025 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
WMU president reflects on past eight years at helm
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University president Edward Montgomery is retiring next week after spending the last eight years leading the university. Montgomery says he enjoyed his ti...
Jun 27, 2025 Western Michigan University President Edward Montgomery (courtesy WMU)
WMU board approves tuition, room and board, and apartment rate increases for the fall
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees Thursday approved a 4.6% increase in tuition and required fees for resident undergraduate students next year. University ...
Jun 26, 2025
