Kalamazoo MI

Award-winning park in Portage features new fishing piers, lighting, boardwalk and memorial garden with ARPA funding

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — After a one day reprieve, snow is coming back to West Michigan!. It has already been a snowy late November and December, and we're going to add more to the pile this week. Nov. 9: 3 inches. Nov. 10: 1 inch. Nov. 11: 0.5 inches. Nov....

Western Michigan University’s S.T.Y.L.E. hosted a “Cowboy Carter”-themed fashion show Dec. 5 in the Student Center ballroom. The show served as tribute to the music artist Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and as a way to celebrate black culture in the fashion industry. “We incorporate a lot of aspects...

On December 7, 2024, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers responded to a crash in the 3500 block of Mount Olivet. A red sedan hit a house and landed on its side. The crash damaged the front corner of the house. The driver, a 47-year-old man from Kalamazoo, got out of the car by himself. Police arrested him...

PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Portage Public Safety Department will be getting a new eye in the sky after the City Council approved a $255,000 contract for five years of use of the latest police drone to replace the aging remote-controlled aerial platform they now use. City officials...

LANSING, Mich. — The latest Michigan school budget was touted as a historic boost in education spending, but schools may not be reaping the full benefits. In early October, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a $24 .1 billion education package into law, but a joint letter from Calhoun County area schools Monday decries cuts.

CASS COUNTY, Mich. -- The Cass County Sheriff's Office reports deputies responded to the intersection of Barron Lake Road and White Street for a two-vehicle crash around 6:15 p.m., on Dec. 5. Investigators determined a 44-year-old Kalamazoo man was traveling north on Barron Lake Road when his vehicle hit a...

PORTAGE, MI — Zap Zone XL has hung its sign at The Crossroads mall, near Macy’s. Beyond the blacked-out windows, power tools whirled inside the 158,186 square-foot building. Branding from a shuttered Sears still hangs over the front doors. The XL venue will offer “state-of-the-art” attractions including bowling,...

Henderson Castle is a bed and breakfast and steakhouse that also hosts special events. It was build in 1895 by Frank Henderson, owner of prominent Kalamazoo regalia maker Henderson-Ames Company. It’s being sued by a man named James Adams, who alleges the business retaliated against him after he left a...

A truck driver in Michigan organizes what has been called a ‘mobile Christmas show’ to spread cheer to truck drivers and prove to the public that drivers aren’t just “dirty, stinky, overweight” guys. The decorated Christmas convoy occurred along Red Arrow Highway in Oshtemo Township, Michigan on Friday, December...