Category Archives: State News

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The City of Portage has now undergone testing for PFAS that the state has required of smaller water systems. These are the same tests that revealed PFAS in the City of P...

SODUS TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) — The names of the young victims in that motel fire in Berrien County have now been released as autopsies are planned on their bodies. County Chief Deputy Robert Boyc...

GRAND HAVEN (WHTC-AM/FM) — The U.S. Coast Guard Festival kicked off Saturday with perfect weather and crowds of people. What started in 1924 as a Coast Guard picnic and rowing competition for th...

VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — One man is dead and another jailed after an alcohol related rollover crash in Van Buren County's Almena Township. State Troopers say that three men from Weslaco, ...

LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday that school districts can ban guns, and can stop anyone who plans to bring guns onto a school campus. The cases involve the Clio an...

LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) –The State Board of Canvassers has voted to allow a petition initiative that would require that employers offer paid sick leave to employees, but they deadlocked on an initi...

BERRIEN COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — Five children and their mother have been killed in a deadly motel fire near Benton Harbor. Firefighters were dispatched at about 1:45 Sunday morning, when most of t...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated several times, to add information and, later, to correct transcription errors by on-scene reporter Peg McNichol. PARK TWP. (WHTC AM/FM) — A homeb...

BENTON HARBOR, MI (WTVB) – A horrible tragedy early Saturday morning near Benton Harbor as authorities say five children and a woman from the same family were killed in a massive motel fire. The...

PARK TWP. (WTHC-AM/FM) — It’s the last day for the 2018 Ottawa County Fair. The Ottawa County Fairgrounds gates open at 11 a.m., rides start at 1 p.m. The fairgrounds are at 1286 Ottawa Be...