Category Archives: State News
Michigan to monitor beaches with a new test
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan will be the first state to monitor beaches using a new rapid testing method for water quality. It can quickly identify E. coli DNA in a water sample with same-day r...
Jun 19, 2015
Help Charleston Heal
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WHTC) – Charleston, South Carolina remains in mourning after a mass shooting allegedly committed by Dylann Roof that left nine people dead. Charleston's Mayor Joseph P. Riley, ...
Jun 19, 2015
Miss Michigan to be crowned Saturday night
MUSKEGON, MI (WHTC) – The Miss Michigan Scholarship Pageant began its preliminary rounds with 34 young women representing the communities from across the state last night. For nearly 70 years, y...
Jun 19, 2015
Film incentives in Michigan may be doomed
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan's film incentives program could face extinction as both the Senate and the House have approved a bill that would allow existing contracts and commitments to be fulf...
Jun 18, 2015
Schuitmaker Named to Panel Exploring Prescription Drug Abuse in Michigan
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – State Senator Tonya Schuitmaker of Lawton was named a member of a blue-ribbon task force created by Governor Snyder to address the growing prescription drug and opioid probl...
Jun 18, 2015
Consumers Energy, DTE Energy Pledge Financial Support to State Program
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – During the Small Business Association of Michigan's Annual Meeting and Networking Luncheon, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy officials said that each utility will contribute ...
Jun 18, 2015
Governor Receives Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Michigan
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children sent a report to the Governor's desk outlining recommendations that would shift the focus from potential victims to ...
Jun 18, 2015
Minimum Wage Bill Surfaces in State Senate
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The state Senate will take up legislation dropping the minimum wage for 18- and 19-year-olds in Michigan to 85 percent of the general minimum wage in Michigan or the federal...
Jun 18, 2015
Another Road-Funding Proposal Surfaces in State House
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – A four-bill road-funding package was introduced in the state House that increases the diesel tax and the gasoline tax to a minimum of 23 cents each on October 1st, and conne...
Jun 18, 2015
Regulation of Uber, TNC in Michigan Closer to Reality
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – A series of five bills that would establish state regulation of Uber and other transportation network companies in Michigan has cleared the House and is now headed to the Se...
Jun 17, 2015
