Category Archives: Holland News
AUDIO: Tentative deal reached on Fiscal Year 2026 state budget
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - At long last, a state budget framework is in place in Lansing with critical public funding on the line of an October 1st deadline. Governor Gretchen Whitmer, along with Hous...
Sep 26, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Bird flu confirmed in Allegan County backyard flock
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Bird flu has been confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Allegan County. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is extremely contagious and circulates when birds are mig...
Sep 24, 2025 dizanna / Depositphotos.com
Court documents: Man told juvenile relative to start Otsego fire
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Court documents say 37-year-old Michael Kilbourn of Otsego told a juvenile to set a play structure on fire in Otsego just after midnight on September 2nd. Kilbourn was arrai...
Sep 24, 2025
Republican state representative says her committee stripped of bills in retaliation
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Republican state Representative Jaime Greene of Richmond says she is being punished by House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland for taking a bipartisan diplomatic trip to Israel....
Sep 19, 2025 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
South Haven gets governmental immunity in 2020 drowning lawsuit
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of South Haven has received governmental immunity from an appeals court in a wrongful death lawsuit from a 2020 drowning. The mother of Brandon Chambers, who di...
Sep 19, 2025 (Photo courtesy of South Haven Area Emergency Services via Facebook)
West Michigan drought worst since 2012
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - From Holland to the Muskegon County line and east to Grand Rapids, the summer's drought is the most significant since 2012. The U.S. Drought Monitor says that part of t...
Sep 19, 2025
Lights will flicker for some in Allegan County early Thursday
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO) -Consumers Energy is giving a heads-up to over 1,300 Allegan County residents that they will see their lights flicker early Thursday as crews replace equipment in a local sub...
Sep 17, 2025
Consumers Energy reaches agreement to sell 13 Michigan hydroelectric dams, including one in Allegan County
JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Consumers Energy today announced it has signed a purchase agreement to sell its 13 hydroelectric dams along five Michigan rivers, including the 2.55 megawatt Calkins Bridge ...
Sep 09, 2025 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
GVSU tightens campus security after weekend stabbing
ALLENDALE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Security is now tighter at Grand Valley State University's main campus in Allendale Township after a stabbing over the weekend near a dormitory. Residents of on-campus hou...
Sep 04, 2025 (courtesy of GVSU)
Michigan's average gas price at $3.30 a gallon
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gas price is at $3.30 a gallon, which is just a penny higher than last week, but 15 cents more than last year. Triple-A Michigan says the average in the ...
Sep 02, 2025
