Category Archives: State News
Movie theaters, performance venues, bowling alleys, etc. reopening Oct. 9
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Many Michigan businesses that have been closed down for about six months are now getting the green light to reopen. Late Friday afternoon Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a...
Sep 25, 2020 Studio Sarah Lou / CC
Michigan health officials release tips for a safe Halloween
MICHIGAN (WKZO AM/FM) -- Halloween is still a go in Michigan. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is following in the footsteps of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and r...
Sep 25, 2020 KOMUnews / CC
Final Adopt-A-Highway cleanup of 2020 starts Saturday
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Volunteers will soon be scouring the roadsides looking for trash during the year's final Adopt-A-Highway pickup. Thousands of volunteers in the Michigan Department of Trans...
Sep 25, 2020 110TH AIRLIFT WING / CC
Michigan completes aerial mosquito control spraying to combat EEE
MICHIGAN (WKZO AM/FM) -- Aerial mosquito-control spraying is now complete in Michigan, or at least for the time being. Officials with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services finished all ...
Sep 25, 2020 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade / CC
Michigan Liquor Control Commission urges parents to talk to their children about alcohol abuse
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- With college semesters almost a month in, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) is reminding parents to talk with their children about the risks associated with alc...
Sep 24, 2020 Simon_sees / CC
Governor Whitmer announces plans to make Michigan Carbon-Neutral by 2050
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Wednesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-182 and Executive Directive 2020-10 to create the MI Healthy Climate Plan. According to Whitmer, the plan i...
Sep 23, 2020 Governor Gretchen Whitmer. (Photo courtesy of the Michigan Executive Office of the Governor).
State of Michigan budget in place, ready to begin new fiscal year on October 1
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Wednesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that the State budget for the Fiscal Year 2021 has been finalized and ready to launch. According to Whitmer's office, the bud...
Sep 23, 2020 sugarfrizz / CC
Second Lady Karen Pence in W. Michigan
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Second Lady Karen Pence will be in West Michigan this Friday, with stops in Holland and Grand Rapids. She'll be at Baker Lofts, 217 E. 24th St., Holland at 11:00 a.m. Doors ...
Sep 23, 2020 Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office / CC
MSP traffic crash stats as of Sept. 22, 2020
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) -- State officials have announced traffic crash numbers as of Tuesday, September 22. Twenty six people died on Michigan roads over the last week. That's a total of 730 this ye...
Sep 23, 2020
CDC says trick-or-treating is a "high risk" activity for COVID-19
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) -- The coronavirus pandemic has affected a number of holidays from Easter to the 4th of July, and now Halloween could be in jeopardy. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Sep 23, 2020 Luke Jones / CC
