Category Archives: Local News
Upton and Huizenga will have to run against each other to remain in Congress
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -If they both decide to run, two Michigan congressman will be facing off against each other in the August 2022 Republican primary. The new U.S. House map drawn up by the Mic...
Dec 29, 2021
Suspect Arrested in Holland Homicide Investigation
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - A 28-year-old Holland man is in custody in regards to what Holland Public Safety is calling a homicide investigation at a residence just west of the downtown district. Accor...
Dec 28, 2021 Law Enforcement Investiagtion (image © Midwest Communications, Inc. 2014)
Slagh Bill for Initiative Petition Transparancy Now Before State Senate
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - An effort to make the initiative process in state government more transparent is moving through the Legislature. A bill that would require the Secretary of State's office to...
Dec 28, 2021
Holland's "Coffee with Council" Sessions Set for Early January
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) -The budget-making process begins for the City of Holland next week. The two "Coffee with City Council" sessions are meant, according to a city statement, "for residents to sh...
Dec 27, 2021
Extra Police Patrols Noticed on Area, State Roads During Holidays
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Motorists traveling highways across Michigan were not alone this Christmas weekend. Extra patrols of Michigan State Police troopers, county sheriff's deputies and municipal ...
Dec 27, 2021 Police Investigation (Shutterstock image licensed to Midwest Communications)
Year 2: Women of Color Give makes $41,000 in donations
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Of the more-than 1.54 million charitable organizations in the United States, one of the newest is the Holland-based Women of Color Give. Since being formed in 2018, its members...
Dec 27, 2021
Two Muskegon Men Hurt in Spring Lake Area Crash
SPRING LAKE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Two Muskegon men in their 20's suffered serious injuries in a single-vehicle crash east of Spring Lake early on Christmas (Dec. 25, 2021) morning. According to Otta...
Dec 25, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Goog's Pub to reopen in new location
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Goog's Pub is coming back. The old restaurant is gone, but the pub's new home will be in one of several in a $2.5 million, two-story new building, at 667 Hastings Ave. in Holla...
Dec 22, 2021
Zeeland City Council meets on alcohol, snowmelt, COVID and more
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Snowmelt special assessment, broadband, updating the alcohol ordinance and rezoning two properties are just a few items on Zeeland City Council's agenda for tonight's study and...
Dec 20, 2021 Zeeland City Hall file photo
COVID: Holland Hospital officials talk about diverting patients
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Although the latest named variant of COVID-19, Omicron, hasn't been officially detected in Ottawa or Allegan counties, health officials say it's just a matter of time. Already,...
Dec 20, 2021 Allegan County COVID-19 free drive-thru tests are the Allegan Transportation building, 750 Airway Drive. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
