Category Archives: State News

HOLLAND (WHTC-AM-FM) — Holland Police reserve Sgt. Dan Lubbers and fellow reservist Lt. Nathan Weiler, on duty during Thursday’s Dutch Dance rehearsals, agreed on the best part of Holland&...

LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Michigan House Committee heard testimony Thursday on an Indiana woman's design for "Safe Haven Baby Boxes" which would supplement Michigan's Safe Haven law. The prov...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) — Former state lawmaker Patty Birkholz has died. The Saugatuck Republican served as a state representative from 1997 to 2002 and went on to two Senate terms, from 2003 t...

LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Legislation from State Senator Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) that would require some Medicaid recipients in Michigan to either work, be in job training, or go to school for at...

ALLEGAN, MI (WTHC-AM/FM) — Allegan County Sheriff’s marine patrol pulled off a dramatic early morning water rescue Thursday, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office. Deput...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The line turned the hallway outside the office in Kalamazoo County Headquarters set up to hand out the County's new photo ID yesterday morning into a waiting room, as re...

HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Saugatuck-Douglas Area Business Assocation officials are appealing for the public to vote in the USA Today 10Best Annual Reader’s Choice poll — because Oval Be...

UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) — After a failed Laketown millage ballot for municipal broadband internet service to Laketown Township, a group of residents decided to convince Comcast to do expand its ser...

JACKSON, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) — A colder-than-normal April kept furnaces running and the energy bill may have some struggling, according to Consumers Energy. The utility company announced it made cal...

HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Holland Police Officer Joe Slenk has been named by the Holland Sentinel as the officer who fatally shot a murder suspect Matthew James Hartman. Hartman had been holding a ...