Category Archives: State News
Angler dies after being struck in shanty by snowmobile during a Michigan ice fishing festival
MANITOU BEACH, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A snowmobile crash at an ice fishing festival in Southeast Michigan left one man dead Saturday night. It happened on a lake in Lenawee County during the annual Tip-Up...
Feb 15, 2021 Devils Lake - Google Satellite Image
Michigan gas prices drop a little, but overall are likely to keep going higher into spring
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Gas prices in Michigan dropped by a small amount over the last seven days, but generally, prices are expected to keep moving higher headed toward the spring season, accordi...
Feb 15, 2021 Mike Mozart / CC
Portage officials and Pfizer plant continue prep for President Biden's visit this week
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials in Portage and at the Pfizer plant there are continuing to prepare for a visit from President Joe Biden this week. He is expected to come to the area on Thursday, ...
Feb 15, 2021 jlhervàs / CC
American Red Cross urges Michiganders for blood donations during Black History Month
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The American Red Cross is urging Michiganders to roll up their sleeves and donate blood this February in honor of Black History Month. Regional Communications Manager for Th...
Feb 14, 2021 Tony Webster / CC
Attorney General Nessel warns consumers of new credit card scam
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is warning consumers of a new scam that's been reported by at least one resident to the Department's Consumer Protection team. The compl...
Feb 14, 2021 Mich. Attorney General's office files domestic terrorism charges against Fruitport man (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Michigan Dept. of Health/Human Services working to make vaccine access easier
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The state Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to ensure that every Michigan resident can sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them....
Feb 13, 2021 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
State budget released, provisions for replenishing the state rainy day fund included
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The budget proposal that Governor Whitmer announced Thursday is a record-setting 67.1-billion-dollar plan, and has in it a provision to begin refilling the rainy-day fund in ...
Feb 13, 2021 sugarfrizz / CC
UPDATE: Two bodies found during search for two Portage residents
UPDATE - PORTAGE MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A search for two missing Portage residents in the Gourdneck Lake preserve has turned up two bodies, but authorities say that they have not yet been identified. One o...
Feb 12, 2021 Gary and Laura Johnson - Undated courtesy via WOOD-TV
Secretary of State says audit affirms Biden win, accuracy of voting machines
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's Secretary of State says a statewide election audit has affirmed Michigan's vote-counting machines are accurate and Joe Biden won the state's November 3, 2020 pres...
Feb 12, 2021 Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Governor Gretchen Whitmer during a press conference on 10/28/20.
(Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Gretchen Whitmer).
Michigan events "dress rehearsal" for U.S. Capitol insurrection says Trump impeachment manager
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan played a role in the Trump impeachment trial Thursday. Democratic Manager Jamie Ruskin said Trump kept up a steady stream of tweets attacking Governor Whitmer ...
Feb 12, 2021 USCapitol
