Category Archives: State News

LANSING (WKZO-AM) — A pair of Democratic state lawmakers have introduced matching bills in the House and Senate that would be aimed at the problem of sexual assaults on college campuses. Current...

SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WHTC) – The 35-year-old husband of a slain Grand Junction woman was denied bond and remains in the Van Buren County Jail. Brent Bogseth was arraigned in South Haven District Cou...

FRANKFURT (WHTC) – Governor Snyder's eight-day, 16 thousand-mile auto industry-related "mission" to Japan and Germany has ended in Frankfurt with Daimler North America confirming a move of its o...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August stood at 5.1 percent, which equals the national average. It's the lowest monthly jobless mark in over 14 years. N...

COVERT, MI (WHTC) – The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant near Covert shut down this morning, four days earlier than a planned refueling and maintenance period. Officials of plant operator Entergy s...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – The widow of slain Walker Police Officer Trevor Slot has died. Kim Slot had been battling cancer when she succumbed overnight in her sleep. The 43-year-old Grand Rapids...

EAST LANSING (WKZO-AM) — Hundreds turned out to the Breslin Center in East Lansing to say goodbye to a firefighter killed in a hit-and-run while collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy A...

LANSING (WKZO-AM) — Sixty-five employees at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation have been given layoff notices because of a dispute between the Gun Lake Casino and the State of Michiga...

MARQUETTE (WKZO-AM) — A teacher from Marquette has gone public with her story about contracting Bubonic plague during a hiking trip in Colorado. Alisha Plescher, 33, said she’s still havin...

ST. PAUL, MINN. (WKZO-AM) — A proposed oil pipeline spanning from North Dakota to the Great Lakes region has been dealt a regulatory blow by a Minnesota appellate court. The Minnesota Court of A...