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Air Zoo receives $819,000 grant for Making Space in Michigan project
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Air Zoo project called Making Space in Michigan now has the green light, thanks to an $819,200 grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity's 2025 Community Museum Empowerment Grant program. Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Center officials say Making Space in Michig...
17h ago
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County commission may reallocate money for weather emergencies
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo County commissioners may reallocate two leftover pots of money to prepare for future weather emergencies Tuesday evening. As we reported last week, they plan to use $400,000 in unspent COVID-19 funding on the Continuum of Care's efforts to provide winter emergency sheltering for t...
Sep 15, 2025
LOCAL NEWS
Air Zoo receives $819,000 grant for Making Space in Michigan project
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Air Zoo project called Making Space in Michigan now has the green li...
17h ago
Michigan's average gas price falls 13-cents
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The average gas price in Michigan is down 13-cents a gallon in the past ...
Sep 15, 2025
Ramp closures involving Columbia Avenue and I-194 in Battle Creek starting next week
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As part of the M-96 bridge improvement project over I-194 in Battle ...
Sep 12, 2025
Arrest made in shooting that caused lockdown of Battle Creek schools
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) A Battle Creek teenager has been charged in connection to shooting th...
Sep 12, 2025
Kalamazoo County man who killed parents now charged with teenager's murder in 2018
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man serving between 29 and 69 years in prison for killing his parents...
Sep 12, 2025
STATE NEWS
Vice President Vance to speak in Howell tomorrow
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - Vice President JD Vance will visit Howell tomorrow. Vance will speak about President Donald Trump's accomplishments, including tax cuts included in what the President called the "one big, beautiful bill." He will talk at a manufacturing venue, but the location and time have not b...
3h ago
Portage Office Depot fires employee for not printing Charlie Kirk posters
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Office Depot employee in Portage is out of a job after she refused to print posters for a customer for a vigil for Charlie Kirk. She called the posters "propaganda" Friday night when the customer asked about the job. The employee was let go that night, and the store printed the p...
Sep 15, 2025
Michigan's average gas price falls 13-cents
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The average gas price in Michigan is down 13-cents a gallon in the past week. Triple-A Michigan says the statewide average is now $3.05, down 12-cents in the past month and 21-cents less than last year. The state's highest price is in Ann Arbor at $3.19, and Grand Rapids has the lowest price...
Sep 15, 2025
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Robert Redford, screen idol turned director and activist, dies at 89
(Reuters) -Actor, director and producer Robert Redford, who was both the quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and an influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, had died at the age of 89, The New York Times repo...
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Robert Redford, screen idol turned director and activist, dies at 89, publicist says
(Reuters) - Actor Robert Redford, a Hollywood screen legend turned director, producer and influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his publicist said. Redford passed away at his ho...
1h ago
Spain to quit 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if Israel participates
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish state broadcaster RTVE's board voted on Tuesday to withdraw from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in May in Vienna if Israel takes part in the event. Spain is the fifth country to make such a pledge after the N...
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