Category Archives: State News
Pilot crashes small plane in wooded area in Ottawa County, suffers minor injuries
GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A pilot survived after a small airplane crashed in a wooded area in West Michigan Tuesday afternoon. It happened around 3:50 p.m. in Ottawa County's Grand Have...
Mar 03, 2021 Grand Haven Township - Google Satellite View
Update to pandemic guidelines; restaurants can seat up to 50%, with 100 person maximum
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - At a press conference Tuesday, Governor Whitmer announced that the state Department of Health/Human Services has made major changes in the guidelines regarding restaurant cap...
Mar 02, 2021 Governor Whitmer addresses Michigan on 3/2/21. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Gretchen Whitmer).
Former state health director reportedly took payout when resigning
LANSING, MI (WJXQ) - Both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report former Michigan Health and Human Services director Robert Gordon took a payout of over $155,000 in tax payer money when he resi...
Mar 02, 2021
Buffalo Wild Wings, Red Cross team up for fundraising campaign
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Red Cross is reporting that, despite the challenges of 2020, more than 11,000 local volunteers helped carry out its various projects in Michigan. Those projects all inc...
Mar 01, 2021 Tony Webster / CC
AG Nessel announces top 10 consumer complaints of 2020
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- To celebrate the importance of National Consumer Protection Week and to help people make informed decisions about how to safely spend their money, Michigan Attorney General...
Mar 01, 2021 Mich. Attorney General's office files domestic terrorism charges against Fruitport man (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Hard Rock Hotels will open new location at former Gibson site in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The former historic Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company site in Kalamazoo will now be the site of a new location by Hard Rock Hotels. According to an announcemen...
Mar 01, 2021 Kalamazoo Public Library
Michigan gas prices continue to soar, now at highest since September of 2019
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Gas prices in Michigan continue to soar, and are now at an average of $2.76 per gallon. AAA says prices are up 12 cents compared to a week ago and prices are now the highe...
Mar 01, 2021 Mike Mozart / CC
Statewide high school graduation rate increases during COVID-19
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Amid the COVID-19 pandemic which closed schools for in-person learning last spring, the Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information is reporting that high s...
Feb 28, 2021 Bill McChesney / CC
Governor Whitmer issues statement on FDA authorization on Johnson & Johnson vaccine
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer released the following statement Saturday, February 27th, after the United States Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use author...
Feb 28, 2021 Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Dr. Joneigh Khaldun speak during a conference on 2-9-21. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Gretchen Whitmer).
Thousands of Michigan residents could be eligible for college assistance program
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As many as 100-thousand low-income Michiganders could be eligible for the state's Tuition Incentive Program, or "TIP," but are not enrolled because of outreach or operational...
Feb 27, 2021 Animated Heaven
