Category Archives: State News
Health officials urging measles vaccinations
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kent County's first measles case since 2013 has health officials urging people to get vaccinated. Dr. Andrew Jameson, infectious diseases physician with Trinity Health ...
Apr 03, 2025 NIAID / CC
Mackinac Bridge closed again for falling ice, more closures likely
ST. IGNACE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - As of mid-morning Wednesday, the Mackinac Bridge was again closed due to falling ice. While the Mackinac Bridge Authority says it cannot predict when the bridge can be re...
Apr 02, 2025 A view of the entrance ramp to the Mackinac Bridge at 12:45 p.m. April 2, 2025 (courtesy Mackinac Bridge Authority)
Consumer Energy rate increases take effect Friday, with a second increase possible this summer
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - Just days before Consumers Energy customers will see an increase in their monthly electric bills, the utility company is preparing to ask the Michigan Public Service Commission (M...
Apr 02, 2025
AUDIO: Question of how to fund road repairs remains unsolved
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State lawmakers agree that Michigan's roads need to be fixed and that there isn't enough money being put toward it. Where the money for the roads will come from remains the ...
Apr 02, 2025 Photo provided by the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Adopt-A-Highway litter clean-up begins this weekend in Lower Michigan
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State officials says it's a spring event as predictable as the return of the robins, as volunteers hit the roadsides across lower Michigan beginning Saturday for the Michiga...
Apr 02, 2025 (courtesy Michigan Department of Transportation)
State of emergency declared for 10 northern Michigan counties after weekend ice storm
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer Monday declared a state of emergency in ten counties after activating the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) to respond to the damaging ice s...
Mar 31, 2025 Ice story damage in northern Michigan March 29, 2025 (photo courtesy of Gary Skory)
AUDIO: VA Secretary Doug Collins tours Battle Creek VA Medical Center
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins spent part of his Monday visiting and touring the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. Collins was asked about job cuts at the VA, an...
Mar 31, 2025
UPDATE: Two-year-old, four-year-old, and 11-year-old killed as tree falls on vehicle in Kalamazoo County
CLIMAX TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office Monday morning said the fatal victims whose vehicle was struck by a tree in Climax Township during a thunderstorm Sunday were a...
Mar 31, 2025 philberrry@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary to tour Battle Creek VA Center this morning
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - United States Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins will visit and tour the Battle Creek VA Medical Center this morning. VA officials say during his vis...
Mar 31, 2025 United States Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins
Three killed in Kalamazoo County storm as tree hits vehicle
CLIMAX TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - At the height of Sunday's thunderstorms in Kalamazoo County, three people were killed and another three were injured after their vehicle was struck by falling tree. ...
Mar 30, 2025 aijohn784 / Depositphotos.com
