Category Archives: State News
2021 Bridge Walk provides three options to participate the event
ST IGNACE MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Mackinac Bridge Authority has released information on this year's Bridge Walk. Participants will have three ways to walk the Mackinac Bridge- starting at either Mackina...
Jun 24, 2021 chellseeyy / CC
Army Corps of Engineers to investigate Enbridge plans for Line #5 tunnel
DETROIT MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A proposed tunnel to be built in the Straits of Mackinac will now be scrutinized by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The project, to be constructed by Enbridge to house contro...
Jun 24, 2021
State Rep. Rogers offers bill to postpone auto insurance changes
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Rep. Julie Rogers has introduced a bill that would delay the implementation of changes to Michigan's auto insurance law. Rogers said that the bill is necessary in order...
Jun 24, 2021
State House package aimed at alleviating teacher shortage in Michigan
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Several state lawmakers have combined forces to put forth a package of bills designed to help alleviate the teacher shortage in Michigan. State Rep. Christine Morse, D-Texas ...
Jun 24, 2021 sugarfrizz / CC
Fundraising underway for new $20 million Special Olympics Michigan complex in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Special Olympics Michigan Thursday announced their Building Tomorrow's Champions campaign, a multi-million-dollar fundraising effort to renovate and transform the forme...
Jun 24, 2021 The former Grand Rapids South Christian High School will be the new site of the Michigan Special Olympics Unified Sports and Inclusion Center (courtesy of Special Olympics of Michigan)
WMU approves tuition rate increase that's below Senate and Governor's cap
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees approved a tuition and required fee increase Thursday, but college official say it falls well below the tuition-increase r...
Jun 24, 2021 Bronco statue on the campus of Western Michigan University (Photo by John McNeil)
Former Michigan basketball players join in sex abuse allegations against late doctor
ANN ARBOR, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Hundreds of former University of Michigan football players accusing the late Dr. Robert Anderson of sexual abuse are now being joined by at least 20 men's basketball play...
Jun 24, 2021 University of Michigan logo (courtesy of U of M)
Michigan unemployment offices now accepting appointments
LANSING, MI -- Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency is now taking appointment reservations for 12 local unemployment offices. That includes the mid-Michigan office in south Lansing. The offices ha...
Jun 24, 2021
Man killed by MSP trooper in Allegan County has been identified
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Zeeland resident Virgil-lee Taylor, 31, is the name of the man shot by a Michigan State Police trooper in Heath Township on Monday, June 21, 2021. Taylor was a considered a pos...
Jun 23, 2021 Michigan State Police - Photo by Jeana Gondek
Consumers Energy announces plan to end coal use, close plants, by 2025
JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Calling it a move that will lead Michigan's clean energy transformation, Consumers Energy Wednesday announced a sweeping proposal to stop using coal as a fuel source for ele...
Jun 23, 2021 The Consumers Energy Campbell generating complex near Holland, Michigan (courtesy of Consumers Energy)
