Category Archives: State News
AUDIO: Consumers Energy not expecting solar power impact from eclipse
JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The solar eclipse next week is a big deal, but will it affect solar power in Michigan? Brian Wheeler, of Consumers Energy, thinks it'll be just fine. Right now, Wheeler says...
Apr 04, 2024 Courtesy Consumer's Energy Facebook page
DNR confirms gray wolf was in Calhoun County
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is confirming a hunter killed a gray wolf in a legal coyote hunt with a guide in January in Calhoun County. The hunter had ...
Apr 04, 2024 Tony Hisgett / CC
Bill would give Michigan residents the chance to book state park campsites first
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A bill before the state House would give Michigan residents first dibs at state park campsites. Representative Cam Cavitt of Cheboygan introduced the bill as one-in-three ca...
Apr 04, 2024 Michigan Department of Natural Resources logo
Trump slams what he calls "Biden's Border Bloodbath"
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Donald Trump is slamming President Biden's handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. During a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan today, Trump claimed Biden is allowing a...
Apr 02, 2024 Former President Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, MI April 2, 2024
Whitmer signs bills to lift ban on paid surrogacy in Michigan
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a nine-bill package that overturns the nation's last ban on paid surrogacy. The ban was put in place in September 1988 and Whit...
Apr 02, 2024 Michigan State Capitol
CAIR Michigan leader condemns nuclear attack comment from Congressman Walberg
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - CAIR Michigan executive director Dawud Walid is slamming remarks made by Congressman Tim Walberg last week at a town hall meeting in Dundee that the Gaza Strip should be nuk...
Apr 02, 2024
Kalamazoo teen killed Sunday, two other people wounded, in as shots rang out during online marketplace transaction
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 16-year-old from Kalamazoo was shot and killed Easter Sunday in what police say was an incident involving an online marketplace transaction. The Kalamazoo Department of ...
Apr 01, 2024 Alan Cleaver / CC
Congressman Walberg clarifies statements on military force in the Gaza Strip
TIPTON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Representative Tim Walberg is attempting to clarify his recent controversial statement on the use of nuclear weapons in the Gaza Strip. In a video circulating on the internet...
Apr 01, 2024
Trump to hold rally in Grand Rapids Tuesday
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former President Donald Trump is planning another campaign rally in Michigan. His team announced Trump will be in Grand Rapids Tuesday to deliver remarks at 2:30 p.m. a...
Mar 29, 2024 Matt Johnson / CC
Netflix releases trailer for Pop-Tart movie set in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Netflix says a movie about the creation of Kellogg's Pop-Tart in Battle Creek in 1963 will be released May 3. Called "Unfrosted: Thee Pot-Tart Story," the movie is dire...
Mar 29, 2024 (screenshot courtesy of Netflix)
