Category Archives: Holland News

"Save A Life - Donate A Life Jacket" program continuing along Lake Michigan shoreline
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With 38 drownings recorded for Lake Michigan in 2023, the West Michigan Lakeshore Association of Realtors and Allegan County Community Foundation have formed a new partnersh...
Ken Delaney Apr 16, 2024 (courtesy Allegan County Community Foundation)

Groundbreaking for new $7 million auto tech building next week
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A groundbreaking ceremony will be held next week for a new automotive technology building at the Allegan Area Educational Service Agency Technical and Education Center. Scho...
Ken Delaney Mar 23, 2024 (courtesy Allegan Area Educational Service Agency)

Hamilton man dies in rollover crash in Allegan County's Heath Township
HEATH TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan State Police from the Wayland Post say they believe alcohol may have been a factor in a rollover accident Tuesday evening that took the life of a 49-year-old...
Ken Delaney Mar 06, 2024 The scene of a fatal accident March 5, 2024 in Allegan County's Heath Township (courtesy Michigan State Police-Wayland Post)

Union nurses at Ascension Hospital in Allegan to get an average raise of 26% over the next three years
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Like their counterparts at Ascension Borgess in Kalamazoo, unionized nurses at Ascension Borgess Allegan Hospital are set to receive an average raise of 26% over the next th...
Ken Delaney Mar 06, 2024 (courtesy Ascension Borgess Allegan Hospital)

Three area adult education programs receive financial boost from the state
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three west Michigan school districts are receiving state funding to help adults over the age of 23 obtain a high school diploma and get started in career training programs. ...
Ken Delaney Mar 06, 2024 (courtesy Michigan Office of Labor and Economic Opportunity)

Allegan man killed in Monroe County crash
MONROE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A west Michigan man has been killed in a crash in Monroe County's La Salle Township. The sheriff's office says 52-year-old Robert Fuss of Allegan was driving a Subaru Outback...
Michael Arney Mar 04, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC

UPDATE: Man's body found on Lake Michigan shoreline Identified
GANGES TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO-WHTC) - The body of a man washed up on the Lake Michigan shoreline north of South Haven, with authorities treating it as a suspicious death, has now been identified. Deputies...
Ken Delaney Feb 20, 2024 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)

EGLE denies permit for private Saugatuck-area marina
SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has denied a permit to developers who are proposing a new private marina near Saugatuck. EGLE took ex...
Michael Arney Feb 14, 2024 EGLE awards 1.1 million dollars in grants; three West Michigan groups get funding (logo courtesy of state EGLE)

Hoekstra Voted New State GOP Chairman; Karamo Plans Legal Fight
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - There is a new leader of the Michigan Republican Party, but the state GOP is far from being united. On Saturday the state committee voted to name former Holland Congressman ...
Gary Stevens Jan 20, 2024 Former US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland)

Two Van Buren Co. men hospitalized with gunshot wounds from same incident
PAW PAW TWP., MI (WKZO/WHTC) - An investigation is ongoing after a 27-year-old South Haven area man and a 31-year-old Covert man were admitted to separate local hospitals Saturday night for treatment ...
Gary Stevens Dec 17, 2023 Van Buren County Sheriff's Office logo




