Category Archives: State News

DETROIT (WKZO) — The commute of 56-year-old James Robertson of Detroit is probably different than anyone else. He walks the 21 miles a day to get to work, and another 21 miles home because he ca...

HOWELL, MI (WKZO) — Pauxatawny Phil may be able to predict what will happen in Pennsylvania, but the weather in the Middle Atlantic States is a completely different animal than the weather we ha...

NORTH BRANCH (WKZO) — An eleven-year-old girl is credited with helping police catch a pair of home invasion suspects in Lapeer County. The girl was home alone when a vehicle pulled in to her dri...

LANSING (WKZO) — Gregory Eaton of Lansing has achieved something few, if any, others have done. Eaton attended Super Bowl 49 Sunday in Arizona, marking his attendance at every Super Bowl ever pl...

DETROIT (WKZO) — A former Detroit Police officer will serve up to 20 years in prison in connection with an identity scam. Authorities say 41-year-old Tamboura Jackson, of Clinton Township, used ...

OWOSSO (WKZO) — The Michigan Department of Transportation is paying 1.1-million dollars a year to lease passenger train cars that have been sitting in a rail yard in mid-Michigan for years. The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) — The U.S. Senate Great Lakes Task Force has a new co-chair with Debbie Stabenow joining Senator Matt Kirk of Illinois heading up the panel. Michigan’s senior senat...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) — There was a flurry of activity in the final days to file a claim with the General Motors victim compensation fund. In the two days before Saturday’s deadline, abo...

LANSING (WKZO) — A Saginaw County businesses man is launching a campaign to fight a proposed sales tax increase. On Friday Paul Mitchell formed a ballot campaign committee called the Coalition A...

LANSING (WKZO) — Farmers statewide are urging people to vote in favor of the May ballot proposal to increase the sales tax by one-percent as part of a deal to fund road repairs. The Michigan Far...