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High School Football on Tap Tonight; White Sox, Whitecaps Triumph on Thursday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 5, 2025) - Week 2 action in the 2025 high school gridiron football regular season along the Lakesh...
27m ago
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Holland Twp. Board to Consider Early Voting Site Agreement with Park Twp. Tonight
HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 4, 2025) - Now that centralized early voting in Ottawa County is no more, local units of ...
19h ago

UPDATE: Housing District, UDO Approved by Holland City Council
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 4, 2025) - The City of Holland has established a Residential Housing District. Following a req...
20h ago

Tulip Time Festival Unveils Planned Dutch Winterfest
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 3, 2025) - Could there be room for another holiday event along the Lakeshore? Those behind the...
Sep 03, 2025

Laketown Twp. Board Votes to Offer Fox a Managerial Contract
YouTube video courtesy Laketown Township, Michigan LAKETOWN TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 3, 2025) - Despite some questions abo...
Sep 03, 2025
Local

GVSU tightens campus security after weekend stabbing
ALLENDALE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Security is now tighter at Grand Valley State University's main campus in Allendale Township aft...
18h ago

Holland Twp. Board to Consider Early Voting Site Agreement with Park Twp. Tonight
HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 4, 2025) - Now that centralized early voting in Ottawa County is no more, local units of ...
19h ago

UPDATE: Housing District, UDO Approved by Holland City Council
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 4, 2025) - The City of Holland has established a Residential Housing District. Following a req...
20h ago

Tulip Time Festival Unveils Planned Dutch Winterfest
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 3, 2025) - Could there be room for another holiday event along the Lakeshore? Those behind the...
Sep 03, 2025

Laketown Twp. Board Votes to Offer Fox a Managerial Contract
YouTube video courtesy Laketown Township, Michigan LAKETOWN TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 3, 2025) - Despite some questions abo...
Sep 03, 2025
State

Senator McCann says Amtrak track shutdown later this month "appears to be poor planning and a troubling lack of advance warning"
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Construction work along the track for the Amtrak Wolverine and Blue Water routes that pass throu...
11h ago

GVSU tightens campus security after weekend stabbing
ALLENDALE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Security is now tighter at Grand Valley State University's main campus in Allendale Township aft...
18h ago

Mackinac Island city council approves U.S. Secret Service vehicles
MACKINAC ISLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Mackinac Island city council has approved allowing the U.S. Secret Service to drive a ...
18h ago

State leaders negotiate budget for an hour at Capitol
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks of Grand Rapids, House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland, a...
18h ago

Japanese auto supplier to create regional HQ in Michigan
SAWA, JAPAN (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced Tokyo-based auto supplier Astemo Ltd. will create a region...
Sep 03, 2025
Local Sports

High School Football on Tap Tonight; White Sox, Whitecaps Triumph on Thursday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 5, 2025) - Week 2 action in the 2025 high school gridiron football regular season along the Lakesh...
27m ago
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Tigers, White Sox & Whitecaps Win on Wednesday; Cubs Fall
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 4, 2025) - Casey Mize scattered five hits with three strikeouts over five innings, as the Tigers s...
22h ago
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Tigers Humbled, but Cubs, White Sox & Whitecaps Won Honors on Tuesday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 3, 2025) - Pete Alonzo cracked two solo homers, while Jeff McNeill added three RBI, as the visitin...
Sep 03, 2025
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Tigers, White Sox & Whitecaps Score Sunday Successes
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 1, 2025) - Tarik Skubal and two relievers teamed to allow four hits with six strikeouts, as the Ti...
Sep 01, 2025
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Tuesday Sept 2 2025 Sports Report
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 2, 2025) - Juan Soto slugged a grand slam home run in the fourth inning, but his two-run triple tw...
Sep 01, 2025
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National Sports
49ers RB Christian McCaffrey listed on injury report with calf issues
The San Francisco 49ers had a surprise addition on their Thursday injury report, listing star running back Christian McCaffre...
2h ago
Inter Miami's Luis Suarez apologizes for spitting incident
Inter Miami forward Luis Suarez issued an apology on Thursday for spitting on a Seattle Sounders staff member four days earli...
3h ago
Floyd Mayweather Jr., Mike Tyson agree to exhibition fight
Boxing legends Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Mike Tyson are set to square off in an exhibition boxing match next spring, it was an...
3h ago
College Sports Commission approved $79.8M in NIL since June
The College Sports Commission, charged with overseeing revenue sharing over the current "Power Four" conferences, i...
3h ago
Fever star Caitlin Clark (groin) to miss rest of season
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark, who suffered a right groin injury on July 15, will not return this season, she announced Th...
3h ago
National
Supreme Court's Barrett says US not in constitutional crisis
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected on Thursday the notion of a...
2h ago
Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 strikes southeastern Afghanistan, GFZ says
(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (...
3h ago
China allocated $131 million in agricultural disaster relief, finance ministry says
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's finance ministry announced on Friday that 940 million yuan ($131.42 million) had been allocated in...
4h ago
Biden had surgery to remove cancerous cells, NBC News reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Joe Biden recently underwent surgery to remove cancerous cells from his skin, NBC...
5h ago
Trump administration considering banning trans people from buying guns, US media reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is considering proposals to prevent transgender people from buying guns, U....
6h ago
World
Analysis-With diplomatic tour de force, China's Xi shows he's 'totally in charge'
By James Pomfret, Laurie Chen, Mei Mei Chu and Antoni Slodkowski HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -When Chinese leader Xi Jinping ...
2h ago
US says 2 Venezuela military aircraft flew near US Navy vessel in international waters
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense said late on Thursday that two Venezuela military airc...
2h ago
South Korea, Japan and US to hold defence drills on heels of North Korea attending China parade
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea, Japan and the U.S. will conduct annual defensive drills starting on September 15 to upgrade aer...
3h ago
Thai parliament to vote on new PM, as Thaksin jets off amid chaos
By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's parliament was set to choose a new prime minister on F...
4h ago
Russia is ready to discuss nuclear fuel at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia with US - RIA
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -The head of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said on Friday t...
4h ago
Business
BMW CEO calls EU's 2035 combustion engine ban a ‘big mistake’, sees strong 2025 sales
BERLIN (Reuters) -BMW Chief Executive Oliver Zipse said the European Union's planned phase-out of combustion engines by 2035 ...
2h ago
Asian stocks track Wall Street higher, bond yields ease before US payrolls
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Asian stocks tracked Wall Street's rise to a record high and Treasury yields eased to four...
2h ago
Exclusive-JX Advanced Metals to cut copper output, smelting capacity as margins erode
By Yuka Obayashi and Kentaro Okasaka TOKYO (Reuters) -JX Advanced Metals will likely cut copper production by tens of thousan...
2h ago
Dollar holds ground as bonds find footing, jobs data looms
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -The dollar mostly held its ground on Friday as bond markets stabilised and traders awaited ke...
3h ago
Qantas trims executive bonuses by 15% for fiscal 2025 over cyber hack
(Reuters) -Australia's Qantas Airways has cut short-term bonuses for its top executives and CEO by 15% in fiscal 2025 after a...
3h ago
Politics
Supreme Court's Barrett says US not in constitutional crisis
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected on Thursday the notion of a...
2h ago
Trump to rename Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' official says
By Nandita Bose and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday t...
6h ago
Trump administration sues Boston over sanctuary city rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Boston, alleging that its s...
7h ago
Trump asks Supreme Court to let him remove Democratic FTC member for now
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to let him tempor...
8h ago
Washington DC sues Trump administration over deployment of National Guard
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington, D.C., sued U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over his d...
13h ago
Health
Florida plan to end vaccine mandates will face challenges in state legislature
By Brad Brooks, Helen Coster and Julia Harte (Reuters) -Just one day after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his plan t...
3h ago
Massachusetts orders insurers to cover state-backed vaccines, even without CDC support
(Reuters) -Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said Thursday the state had ordered insurers to cover vaccines backed by its h...
8h ago
US plans to bring Gilead HIV drug to market in high-burden HIV countries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department announced a plan on Thursday to bring Gilead Sciences Inc's drug lenacapavir ...
10h ago
EU recognizes Brazil as bird flu free, says Brazil's ag minister
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Thursday that the European Union has recognized Bra...
11h ago
Poland's Diagnostyka reports $17.5 million second quarter profit
GDANSK (Reuters) -Polish medical laboratory operator Diagnostyka, which listed on the stock exchange in February, reported a ...
13h ago
Science
Italy exhibition explores how sound helps us to savour food
By Giselda Vagnoni TRENTO, Italy (Reuters) -An exhibition in northern Italy is expanding traditional ideas about taste by exp...
Sep 01, 2025
EU to boost satellite defences against GPS jamming, Defence commissioner says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to strengthen resilience against ...
Sep 01, 2025
Tiny carved animals found in Turkey tell story of prehistoric myth making
By Ceyda Caglayan and Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A set of carved stone animals - a fox, a vulture and a wild boar - ...
Aug 28, 2025
'Jaw-droppingly weird' dinosaur from Morocco was studded with spikes
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the most e...
Aug 27, 2025
Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning h...
Aug 27, 2025
Technology
OpenAI set to start mass production of its own AI chips with Broadcom in 2026, FT reports
(Reuters) -OpenAI is set to produce its first artificial intelligence chip next year in partnership with U.S. semiconductor g...
4h ago
Trump to impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from firms not moving production to US
By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration would impos...
4h ago
Cadence Design to buy Hexagon's design and engineering unit for $3.16 billion
(Reuters) -Cadence Design said on Thursday it will buy the design and engineering business of Stockholm-based Hexagon AB for ...
8h ago
Broadcom sees fourth-quarter revenue above estimates on growing AI chip demand
(Reuters) -Broadcom forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, bolstered by strong demand for i...
8h ago
Data center provider ODATA secures record $1.02 billion green financing for Latam
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Data center provider ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company, has secured a $1.02 billion green financing...
8h ago
Entertainment
Paramount, Legendary Entertainment strike deal for 'Street Fighter' film
(Reuters) -Paramount Skydance has entered into a three-year deal for the global distribution of films produced by Legendary E...
10h ago
Venice ovation fuels hopes for Gaza girl film to reach global audience
By Hanna Rantala VENICE (Reuters) -Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania said on Thursday she hopes the rapturous reception gi...
15h ago
A mirror and an escape hatch: Toronto International Film Festival turns 50
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -A half-century after its inception, the Toronto International Film Festival seeks t...
16h ago
'Father Ted' creator Linehan in UK court for trans harassment case
LONDON (Reuters) -Graham Linehan, the Irish co-creator of TV comedy show "Father Ted", went on trial in London on T...
17h ago
Factbox-What you need to know about the Toronto International Film Festival
By Bhargav Acharya TORONTO (Reuters) -The Toronto International Film Festival returns for a 50th edition on Thursday, with a ...
19h ago