Kalamazoo MI

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – As we first reported two weeks ago, the Kalamazoo community is getting an early start on planning emergency shelters for the homeless this winter. City Manager Jim Ritsema has announced the dates for local agencies to bid on providing those services, which include day...

Burdick’s Bar & Grill reopens in downtown Kalamazoo with a new look, menu, and duckpin bowling after nine months of major renovations.

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A Kalamazoo man has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison in connection with a 2023 homicide that occurred on the city’s east side. 42-year-old Jason Lawrence Blough pled no contest last month to involuntary manslaughter and habitual offender–third offense charges. Monday Kalamazoo...

Nearly two years after a deadly stabbing in Kalamazoo, a man has been sentenced to prison in connection with the death.

They did make it clear that only the Portage location would be closing and customers could visit the Campus location near WMU for their favorites.

GULLIVER, Mich. (WBUP/WJMN) — UPDATE (9/16/2025): Michigan State Police (MSP), as well as downstate Michigander Angela Lawrence, reported that her brother, Timothy Lawrence, has been found deceased. Missing since early September, he was found on Tuesday, Sept. 15 near the area on Lang Road in Gulliver where he was...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The number of traffic crashes in Kalamazoo is down again this year, continuing a steady decline city leaders say reflects ongoing safety improvements. Newly released data shows crashes through the first seven months of 2025 are at their lowest level in years. Officials credit the "Streets for All"...

Kalamazoo’s first non-alcoholic bar ZERO opens downtown joining the growing local sober scene.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Burdick's Bar & Grill in downtown Kalamazoo is slated for a grand reopening on Tuesday, Sept. 23 following a months-long renovation project. Burdick's, which sits inside the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites, underwent a full transformation that first began in December 2024. The 11,890 square-foot...

KALAMAZOO, MI – Look for Kalamazoo County to focus its next round of housing grants on projects that support families and individuals recovering from major health and social issues. “On the multi-family side, everything that they wanted to fund deals with recovery or folks with addictions,” says Kalamazoo County...