Category Archives: State News
Suspect reportedly shoots homeowner
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) – Michigan State Police say a home invasion suspect apparently shot and wounded a homeowner early Thursday morning in Calhoun County's Newton Township. Troopers say it...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 07, 2018
Upton Aims to Keep Asian Carp Out of Great Lakes
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Michigan’s Sixth District Congressman, Fred Upton, is back to work in Washington D.C. – and focused on getting a Great Lakes budget amendment approved. Upton h...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 07, 2018
Whiteford medical records bill moves forward
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Michigan’s Senate Judiciary Committee has approved House Bill 5783, which mandates that certain medical records be kept for 15 years. House Republican Mary Whiteford...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 07, 2018
Voters will decide fate of recreational marijuana
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The question of whether or not recreational marijuana will be legalized in Michigan will be left to the voters to decide after the Republican majority in the State House c...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 06, 2018
Legislature doesn't act, marijuana on fall ballot
LANSING, MI (WTVB) – You will get the chance in November 2018 to decide whether or not recreational marijuana should be legalized in Michigan for those over the age of 21. Tuesday was the deadli...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 06, 2018
State to close another prison, but no site announced
LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Another state prison in Michigan will close next year after an agreement was reached in a state House and Senate conference committee. The Michigan Department of Corrections...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 06, 2018
More downtown Kalamazoo expansion planned
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) –Developers have revealed their plans for a $24-million dollar apartment complex that will be built at the former site of the Public Safety Headquarters and Kalamazoo ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 05, 2018
Can you help solve this 30-year-old mystery?
PAW PAW (WKZO AM/FM) This is about as frosty as cold case murders come. Michigan State Police at the Paw Paw Post are now soliciting the public's help to identify a woman who was only skeletal remains...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 05, 2018
Registration Open for Sixth Annual Zeeland Criterium
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — The sixth annual Zeeland Twilight Criterium is set for 6 p.m. Friday, June 15, 2018. A Criterium is, by definition, a one-day bicycle race down a circuit road course. It i...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 05, 2018
National Weather Service: Beach Hazards Statement
GRAND RAPIDS (WHTC-AM/FM) — The National Weather Service has issued a beach hazards statement, starting a 2 p.m. today, June, 5, 2018, and going through this evening for Allegan, Ottawa and Van ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 05, 2018




