Category Archives: State News
AUDIO: Bipartisan coalition, including former Governor Engler, fighting 2020 election misinformation
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former President Donald Trump and his supporters still refuse to concede that he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden in 2020. Now, a new bipartisan group in Michigan...
Sep 13, 2024 Former President Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, MI April 2, 2024
WMU President announces his retirement, effective June 30, 2025
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After leading Western Michigan University for the past seven years, President Edward Montgomery has announced his retirement, effective next summer. WMU officials say Mont...
Sep 12, 2024 Western Michigan University President Edward Montgomery (courtesy WMU)
AUDIO: State House Republicans say budget has $320 million for Renaissance Center demolition
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Minority Republicans in the Michigan House say the upcoming fiscal year budget has around $320-million in it to demolish the Renaissance Center in Detroit. Representative Ma...
Sep 11, 2024 skonech@aol.com / Depositphotos.com
AUDIO: WMU professor, state Senate Minority Leader give presidential debate reactions
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held their first and possibly only debate Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Western Michigan University politic...
Sep 11, 2024 Radek Kucharski / CC
WMU receives $3.17 million grant to reduce the weight, cost, volume, and emissions footprint of EVs
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Researchers at Western Michigan University have received a $3.17 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to spur development of an integrated charger-inverter system, whic...
Sep 11, 2024 Plug-in electric vehicle with charger Plug-in electric vehicle with charger
Two deceased Branch County crows found to have West Nile Virus
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency has been notified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that two deceased crows found in Branch County ...
Sep 10, 2024 ellandar / Depositphotos.com
State House Republicans Unveil School Funding Adjustment Package
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 10, 2024) - The state budget for Fiscal 2025 hasn't even taken effect yet, and some lawmakers want to make changes to the spending plan already. On Monday, minority Hous...
Sep 10, 2024 State House 86th District Representative Nancy DeBoer (R-Holland) discusses the "Pathways to Success" package during a Sept. 9, 2024 press briefing in Lansing. (photo courtesy Michigan House Republicans)
Michigan's average gas price hits lowest point since February
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices in Michigan are down to $3.25 a gallon on average to start the week. Triple-A Michigan says that is the lowest they have been since February and are down 12-cent...
Sep 09, 2024
Suspect identified in series of Kalamazoo fires
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety has identified 32-year-old George Horace Stanard as the suspect arrested in connection with several recent structure fires across...
Sep 07, 2024
Nigerian brothers sentenced for deadly sextortion case in Upper Peninsula
MARQUETTE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Nigerian brothers will spend 17-and-a-half years in federal prison for their roles in a sextortion scheme that caused the suicide of 17-year-old Jordan DeMay of Marque...
Sep 06, 2024 Chris Potter / CC
