Category Archives: State News

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) –The Kalamazoo Promise has reenergized the Kalamazoo Public Schools and been a leader in the Free Scholarship movement nationwide. But is it improving the lives of Kalamaz...

By Steve Friess CHARLOTTE, Mich. (Reuters) – Jessica Thomashow was a 9-year-old gymnast who still liked playing with American Girl dolls when USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar first molested he...

LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Two Michigan lawmakers are introducing legislation to improve the state’s recycling laws. State Representative Jon Hoadley of Kalamazoo is sponsoring a bill that...

MUSKEGON, MI (WTVB) -The Michigan Department of Corrections is closing the West Shoreline Corrections Facility in Muskegon due to a reduction in the number of prison inmates in the state. A total of 1...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) – Minchigan United State Senator Debbie Stabenow is honoring one veteran from South Haven. Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam War veteran, and South Haven High Schoo...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The first town hall meeting of the 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial campaign is tonight. Three of the four leading candidates for the Republican Party nomination will ...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Do you trust the water that comes from your taps? Most people are probably just fine. That's what everyone in Flint thought until it turned brown and began to smell. Peo...

ALLEGAN COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — There is never a cowboy around when you need one. Motorists headed north on U.S. 131 from Kalamazoo were brought to a standstill by a young cow, that managed to get...

LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Lt. Governor Brian Calley is calling on Michigan State University to stop fighting lawsuits filed by the victims of Larry Nassar and to set up a compensation fund for the ...

LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Attorney General Bill Schuette has appointed retired Kent County Prosecutor Bill Forsythe to lead the investigation into the expanding sex abuse scandal at Michigan State ...