Category Archives: State News
Governor Whitmer signs executive order to lower gas prices
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed an executive order to declare a state of energy emergency in Michigan. The order suspends the requirement that lower vapor pressure gas ...
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Enbridge lawsuit against Michigan allowed to proceed by U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - The lawsuit filed by Enbridge over their efforts to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Governor W...
Apr 02, 2026 Brittany Hogan / CC
Distracted drivers on I-94 targeted by police yesterday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan State Police had extra patrols out along Interstate 94 from the Indiana border to Port Huron cracking down on distracted drivers. The "Lake to Lake, Focused an...
Apr 02, 2026 Michigan State Police - Photo by Jeana Gondek
Man sentenced for setting Michigan State Police vehicles on fire
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Florida man who pled no contest in January to third-degree arson, terrorism, and assault with intent to murder charges will spend between the next 25 and 40-years ...
Apr 01, 2026 Michigan State Police cruiser (Photo by John McNeil)
Another lawsuit filed by marijuana industry against wholesale tax
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Cannabis Industry Association has filed another lawsuit against the state Treasury Department over the 24% wholesale tax. They say in the suit that the tax is u...
Apr 01, 2026 jeremyn / Depositphotos.com
SoS Benson: Trump's executive order on elections "illegal on its face"
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says President Donald Trump is breaking the law with his executive order on elections and says she will challenge it in court. Tru...
Apr 01, 2026 May 4, 2021; Holland, MI, USA; Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson answers reporters' questions in front of Holland City Hall during an appearance on Election Day. Gary Stevens/Midwest Communications
Muskegon Heights police capture woman who escaped over weekend
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police in Muskegon Heights say they have recaptured a woman who was seen escaping from a police SUV over the weekend in a viral video. She was arrested at an abando...
Apr 01, 2026
Amway global sales in 2025 drop to $7.3-billion
ADA TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Global sales for Amway were down slightly in 2025, falling from $7.4-billion in 2024 to $7.3-billion. The world's largest direct sales company had a high of $9.5-billio...
Apr 01, 2026
Muskegon Heights police searching for woman who escaped in viral video
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A viral video that has circulated on social media since Saturday afternoon of a handcuffed woman escaping a Muskegon Heights police SUV is valid according to police...
Mar 31, 2026
Bipartisan bills to lower housing costs appear doomed in Lansing
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 31, 2026) - The issue of creating more housing in Michigan was getting some static in Lansing. Last month, a bipartisan package of nine bills was introduced in the state ...
Mar 31, 2026 ArturVerkhovetskiy / Depositphotos.com
