Category Archives: State News
2 Comstock firefighters are now sharing one liver
ANN ARBOR (WKZO AM/FM) — We have reports from the University of Michigan Medical Center that a liver transplant operation involving two Comstock Fire officials went well yesterday and now both m...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 07, 2019
State House votes to kill Whitmer's latest E.O.
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — They may have been talking bipartisan unity in Lansing, but that took a quick hit late Wednesday when the State House on a straight-line party vote, moved to kill an Execu...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
UPDATE: Person of interest in fatal fire arrested
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A person of interest in a fatal fire in Kalamazoo’s Eastside neighborhood is now in custody thanks to tips from residents. Public Safety Officers were looking for ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
Consumers Energy: 52,000 without power
MICHIGAN (WHTC-AM/FM) — The overnight ice storm cut power to approximately 50,000 West Michigan Consumers Energy customers, according to company officials, and created slick and hazardous condit...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
Blood donors needed
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Last week’s polar vortex is causing a shortage of blood in Michigan. Health officials at Versiti, formally known as Michigan Blood, say they had to cancel more...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
Talons Out now welcoming Vietnam Veterans
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — "Talons Out" is spreading its wings. The organization that has been offering day trips to World War II and Korean Veterans, all expenses paid to see their war memori...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
ATF: Bigger Cash Reward Offered for Tips on Idlewild Firebombing
MICHIGAN (WHTC-AM/FM) — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) continues working with Lake County Sheriff's Office investigating an April 27, 20-17 firebombing of a home i...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
Michigan Pols React to State-of-Union Speech
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Reactions from Michigan’s members of Congress poured out after the State-of-the-Union speech. Zeeland Rep. Bill Huizenga emailed a statement to media, saying “...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 06, 2019
Dalton gets the maximum, life without parole
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's the end of a chapter for Kalamazoo. Jason Dalton was taken straight from sentencing at the old Kalamazoo County Courthouse to a waiting Sheriff's van and transported ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 05, 2019
Governor overhauls environmental agency
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Gretchen Whitmer is replacing the Department of Environmental Quality with what she is calling the Department of the Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, or EGLE,...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 05, 2019




