Category Archives: State News

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Students from the Stoneman Douglas High School led the march in Washington protesting for more gun reforms, sparking a national movement. Hundreds of thousands more turn...

BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Battle Creek detectives say they have gotten several tips that have helped them along in their investigation of the shooting of a young local man, dead from a sin...

HASTINGS (WKZO AM/FM)– A 17-year-old from Hastings is the latest teen to be arrested for allegedly making a false bomb threat and a false threat of terrorism. Those threats shut down the schools...

KENT COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM)– Two more people have been arrested for whatever roles they may have played in the case against Quinn James. We don't know because authorities say they aren't telling th...

UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM)– Immigration agents spent four days this week in Southwest Michigan rounding up foreign nationals for deportation. They took 14 men and two women into custody, including nin...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Gretchen Whitmer the front runner on the democratic side of the gubernatorial race was in west Michigan this weekend making a variety of campaign stops in the area. She ...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) — Saturday's national March for Our Lives — one response to the rise in school shootings — has dozens of Michigan sites. Holland walkers meet at 11 a.m. at C...

UNDATED (WHTC AM/FM) — H. Wayne Huizenga, who became the only U.S. businessman to create three Fortune 500 companies, has died, according to mutliple reports. The Chicago native was 80. Huizenga...

LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Two bills that would outlaw cyberbullying in Michigan are now moving to the Senate after being approved by the House. One bill would make threatening bodily harm or de...

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A new report from The Educator’s School Safety network ranked Michigan fifth in the number of school threats immediately following the Parkland school shooting...