Category Archives: State News
GVSU giving current, former military members admission, help with tuition
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Grand Valley State University officials say they will admit all current or former U.S. Armed Forces members who serve or served honorably guaranteed admission to the sc...
Nov 12, 2025 (courtesy of GVSU)
Secretary Of State Benson criticizes President Trump's pardons
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is criticizing the pardons issued by President Donald Trump of the "2020 election deniers" in Michigan. The Democratic candidate f...
Nov 12, 2025 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
Peters introduces bipartisan resolution recognizing 50th anniversary of Edmund Fitzgerald wreck
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan has introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The freighter sank Nov...
Nov 11, 2025 Edmund Fitzgerald in 1971 - via Wikipedia
President Trump issues symbolic pardons for 2020 Republican electors in Michigan
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - President Donald Trump has pardoned the 16 Republican electors who were charged for signing a certificate declaring they were the duly elected electors in the 2020 presid...
Nov 11, 2025
MDHHS directs SNAP vendor to resume full November payments
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has directed its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program vendor to once again start issuing full SNAP benefits for Nov...
Nov 11, 2025 SNAP logo
Today is 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
WHITEFISH POINT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago today in Lake Superior, claiming the lives of the 29 crewmen aboard. Their family members gathered at Mariners' Chu...
Nov 10, 2025 Edmund Fitzgerald in 1971 - via Wikipedia
Gas prices up 14-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Drivers are paying 14-cents more a gallon to fill the gas tank today than last Monday. Triple-A Michigan says the statewide average price for gas is $3.10, 15-cents more th...
Nov 10, 2025
Michigan's U.S. senators vote no on bill to end shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin both voted against the bill that passed to start reopening the federal government. Peters says he voted against th...
Nov 10, 2025 Ron Cogswell / CC
Batavia Township woman dies in Friday morning house fire
BATAVIA TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - Fire officials now say a woman died in an early Friday morning fire in Branch County's Batavia Township. Bronson Fire Chief Scott Wilber says 59-year-old Cindy Herman die...
Nov 08, 2025
State halts SNAP payments again after Supreme Court ruling
LANSING, MI ( WKZO AM/FM) - Friday night the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay temporarily blocking an order to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to issue f...
Nov 08, 2025 SNAP logo
