Category Archives: State News
State looking for participants in PFAS study
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A multi-site study regarding PFAS is looking for participants, including two Kalamazoo County locations. The state Department of Health and Human Services is looking for peop...
Sep 24, 2021 sugarfrizz / CC
Rail Safety Week safety tips
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- About two dozen people, officials from area police agencies, the City of Holland, Amtrak and Max Transit gathered among passengers at the Padnos Transportation Center to talk a...
Sep 24, 2021 An Amtrak workers watches a woman leave the train in Holland on Sept. 24, 2021, during Rail Safety Week, 2021. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Detroit area man missing for five months found deceased, foul play not suspected
SOUTHFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Police in the Detroit area say a 20-year-old man who went for a walk and didn't return five months was found dead this week. FOX 2 Detroit says the body of Noah Kerridge...
Sep 24, 2021 Police lights
Some areas in southeast Michigan received up to 6" of rainfall this week
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Much of Michigan had heavy rains during the last couple of days, but a few areas in Southeast Michigan saw some impressive amounts. MLive reports that the heaviest totals c...
Sep 24, 2021 Robert Couse-Baker / CC
Branch County judge issues temporary restraining order to release football players from quarantine
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The statewide advocacy group Let Them Play Michigan is claiming its first victory of the new school year over county health department quarantine rules, after a Branch County ju...
Sep 24, 2021 A Let Them Play Michigan rally at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan (courtesy of Let Them Play Michigan)
2021-22 state budget includes almost $200 million for bridge repair
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The proposed state budget that has made it through the Legislature contains almost $200 million for repairs to bridges around the state, and while some say that the amount is...
Sep 23, 2021 sugarfrizz / CC
Michigan high school student caught with loaded pistol in fanny pack
TAYLOR, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Taylor High School student has been caught with a loaded pistol in his fanny pack after the 15-year-old allegedly threatened a security guard. Detective Alex Stellini desc...
Sep 23, 2021 Robert Nelson / CC
Lansing man sentenced for role in ISIS case
LANSING, MI -- A 28-year-old Lansing man will serve nearly eleven years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. Mohamed Haji was the third and final suspect sentenced aft...
Sep 23, 2021
Small earthquake near Battle Creek Tuesday stronger than originally reported
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A small earthquake that measured 3.8 on the Richter scale took place at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday about 9 miles southeast of Battle Creek. Several residents said they heard...
Sep 23, 2021 Calhoun County earthquake - Google Satellite Image
State Rep. Rogers releases statement on state budget for Fiscal Year 2022
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Earlier this week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Legislature came to an agreement on a bipartisan budget for the Fiscal Year 2022. Included in the budget is $3 million t...
Sep 23, 2021 State Rep. Julie Rogers. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Julie Rogers).
