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6 days ago | 
wkzo.com | Michael Arney
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft study of Enbridge Energy’s proposed tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for their Line 5 pipelines.
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6 days ago | 
wkzo.com | Michael Arney
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is not going to revive the second-degree murder case against former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr. His trial ended in a mistrial after jurors could not agree if he was or wasn’t guilty in the April 2022 shooting death of Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop. Nessel’s office said Friday she would not take up the case.
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6 days ago | 
d2698.cms.socastsrm.com | Michael Arney
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kalamazoo city commissioners will hold a couple of public hearings on rezoning to permit new housing in the community. The big project is a proposal to put 80 new units at Burdick and Vine just west of Bronson Hospital.
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6 days ago | 
d2698.cms.socastsrm.com | Michael Arney
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kalamazoo County is considering a plan to dip into opioid settlement money to replace funding that had been approved by the federal government but was cancelled by the Trump administration. Plans for the 48-unit Kal Recovery Project to house and provide support services for recovering addicts was well underway, when the federal funds were yanked out from under them. A county memo says they only have until August to replace that funding to keep the project on track.
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6 days ago | 
wkzo.com | Michael Arney
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers have a suspect in custody for a murder from Wednesday. A 42-year-old man was shot in the head and abdomen around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday and died at a hospital just after 3 a.m.The suspect’s name has not been released and public safety will release that after the person is formally charged. They are scheduled to be arraigned today. The shooting happened near Riverview Drive and East Paterson Street.
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6 days ago | 
d2698.cms.socastsrm.com | Michael Arney
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The search for a new Kalamazoo city manager could take a step forward tonight. City commissioners will get a look at the nine executive search firms that qualified to submit a bid for the job. A commission subcommittee has reviewed their bids and ranked them, with firms from Texas, Ohio and California finishing with the most points. A couple of firms with experience searching in Michigan submitted bids but ranked on the low side.
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6 days ago | 
d2698.cms.socastsrm.com | Michael Arney
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Long-delayed efforts to install two new public restrooms downtown could move forward tonight, if Kalamazoo city commissioners approve the purchase of a Portland loo. That’s a durable, low-maintenance, vandal-resistant one stall bathroom that would be open 24/7, designed by the city of Portland, Oregon and bearing their name. City Manager Jim Ritsema says they are still trying to work out where to install it.
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2 weeks ago | 
wkzo.com | Michael Arney
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is cautioning people heading to northern Michigan this weekend to be prepared for tree damage from the March ice storm. The DNR says the damage covered more than three-million acres. They said in an email to Michiganders that the area may look different than normal. Work is continuing to clean up the debris left by the storm.
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2 weeks ago | 
wkzo.com | Michael Arney
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Two controversial bills that ban transgender girls from playing female sports in school have been approved by the Michigan House. One bill passed with a strictly party-line vote to ban anyone born male from joining female sports teams. The other bill passed with a single Democrat joining majority Republicans to amend the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to say eligibility for K-12 athletes is based on their original birth certificates.
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2 weeks ago | 
wkzo.com | Michael Arney
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker says former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr will not be retried for the shooting death in April 2022 of Patrick Lyoya. Becker says he did not make the decision lightly and says he does not believe his office would be successful at getting a guilty verdict. The jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared by the judge.
