Category Archives: State News

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO NEWS) — It's safe to use the tap water in Battle Creek, but some may still be avoiding it until the brown color goes away. That's mostly inert sediments kicked up by the press...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) — Ottawa County investigators have released the name of a second young man they believe was responsible for the shooting death of 14-year-old Troy "TJ" Wells over t...

PARK TOWNSHIP (WHTC-AM/FM) — Emergency responders rescued a 15-year-old girl from an ice shelf out on Lake Michigan yesterday afternoon, hundreds of feet from Idlewood Beach in Park township, ac...

VAN BUREN COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Fire crews from several departments are on the scene of a fire that destroyed a residence at 56609 8th Ave., Columbia Township (near Grand Junction in Van Buren C...

SOLON TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) — The Kent County Sheriff's Department is investigating a shooting that has left 3 children and an adult woman dead at an address on 19-Mile-Road near Cedar Springs i...

HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Friends and family held a candlelight vigil for murdered 14-year-old Troy “T.J.” Wells at Kollen Park Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. (See the photo gallery.) The sou...

OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Police have revised information released earlier about suspects in the murder of Troy Wells Jr., according to an email from Ottawa County Sheriff’s Capt. Mark ...

VOLINIA TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) — A Dowagiac man may have survived a head on collision with a tree thanks to his seat belts. Cass County Deputies say they responded Saturday morning to a report of...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The Bishop of Kalamazoo is commenting on the Vatican decision this weekend to defrock former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, following allegations of sexual misconduct....

BENTON HARBOR(WKZO AM/FM) — A man who committed a double murder that was considered so egregious and horrifying that he made the FBI's Most Wanted list has been found guilty by a jury in Berrien...