Category Archives: State News
AG Nessel - Don't call Consumer Protection Hotline for "stay at home" violations
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Due to a high amount of phone calls regarding improper reporting, Attorney General Dana Nessel is providing some guidance on when the Consumer Protection Hotline shoul...
Mar 25, 2020
State tax filing deadline still April 15
LANSING, MI (WTVB) – While Michigan residents are getting a break in filing their federal tax returns, the state has not yet approved a similar extention. The Internal Revenue Service March 21 a...
Mar 25, 2020
Temporary garbage-collection rules during coronavirus response
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Federal, state and county officials have noted that emergency responders, public safety workers and those at grocery stores are at risk for the coronavirus because they de...
Mar 25, 2020
AG Nessel - Businesses under fire for selling “Coronavirus Defender Patch”
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — As Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is continuing her crackdown against illegal COVID-19 profiteering, the number of reported incidents are only increasing. By Tu...
Mar 24, 2020
Meijer temporarily stops taking bottle returns
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WTVB) – Meijer announced it is temporarily suspending bottle returns in its Michigan stores, effective immediately. The announcement comes following Governor Gretchen Whitmer&#...
Mar 24, 2020
Blood donation exempt from stay-at-home order
UNDATED, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Healthy individuals looking to help during this pandemic can roll up a sleeve, to save a life. Kalamazoo County Board Chair Julie Rogers says they are anticipating sho...
Mar 24, 2020
Superintendent urges closing schools for the year
DETROIT, MI (WTVB) – Detroit Public Schools superintendent Nikolai Vitti is urging Michigan leaders to close schools for the rest of the year. In a letter Monday to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, state ...
Mar 24, 2020
Secretary of State - absent voter applications being mailed for May election
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — In accordance with Governor Whitmer’s “stay at home” Executive Order issued Monday, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has announced that absent voter...
Mar 23, 2020
Special agents assigned to price-gouging cases by AG Nessel
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is continuing her crackdown into price-gouging cases related to the COVID-19 outbreak as more than 1,400 complaints have been fil...
Mar 23, 2020
State dispensaries remain open, will utilize curbside pickup
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Following Governor Whitmer’s “stay at home” Executive Order issued Monday, new regulations are now in place for medical/recreational marijuana dispen...
Mar 23, 2020
