Category Archives: State News

LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The second largest Powerball jackpot in the game’s history will be revealed tonight. The Michigan Lottery says the multistate game’s top prize will be at l...

GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC) – Although the water level on Lake Michigan is not at a record high, it is higher than a year ago and about four feet up from 2014. Area engineer Tom O’Bryan is the ...

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Republican lawmakers are applauding President Trump’s plans for the war in Afghanistan. On Monday President Trump said conditions on the ground, not timetables, ...

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM/FM) — A local hotel operator, who has been under federal investigation for years, has now been slapped with a big bill for restitution. Mike Patel was charged with paying h...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — On a 5-2 vote, Kalamazoo city commissioners have approved the framework and the bylaws for the Foundation for Excellence. Commissioner Dave Anderson said the Monday deci...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Researchers at Western Michigan University are working on better ways for humans and robots to interact and to determine ways of improving communications. Their test sub...

DEARBORN (WKZO-AM/FM) — AAA says Michigan’s average gas price is starting the week lower. Susan Hiltz, a spokesperson with the auto club, said the statewide average is $2.40. That’s ...

PAW PAW (WKZO-AM/FM) — Van Buren County Sheriff’s deputies say distracted driving is to blame for a rear-end crash on westbound Interstate 94 near Paw Paw that shut down the freeway for 30...

LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO-AM/FM) — A driver from Portage, Ind., is dead after crashing his car on M-60 in Lockport Township. St. Joseph County Sheriff’s deputies say Randall Mantz was ej...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Despite gloomy forecasts, Kalamazoo got to see the eclipse after all. Larue Russell at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum saud they were mobbed by people eager to catch the sol...