Category Archives: Local News
Weekend high school sports wrap-up: Coldwater baseball team captures title in Pat Lowe Invitational
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – In Branch County high school sports over the weekend, it was a very busy Saturday. In baseball, Coldwater was the winner of their annual Pat Lowe Memorial Invitational wit...
Apr 20, 2015
Controversial State Representative sponsoring re-introduced road funding legialation
LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Supporters of Proposal 1 say that there is no plan B, but to one opponent of the statewide road funding ballot question, there is one in the Legislature right now. Freshman ...
Apr 18, 2015
27 schools taken off state "Priority" list
LANSING, MI (WTVB) – State school Superintendent Mike Flanagan has lifted 27 out of over 250 on a statewide list of schools that were under the "priority" supervision of the Michigan School Refo...
Apr 18, 2015
Legislation proposed to register names of homeschooled children with local school districts
DETROIT, MI (WTVB) – – Legislation will be introduced in the Michigan legislature next week to require parents or guardians who home school to register their children’s names with th...
Apr 18, 2015
HS Sports: Coldwater boys golf places 5th at its own invitational
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Yesterday in high school boys golf. it was the annual Cardinal Invitational at the Coldwater Golf Course, and Coldwater’s varsity team placed 5th out of 17 teams wit...
Apr 18, 2015
Branch County Jail facing overcrowding again
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – It's still more than two months on the calendar before the start of summer when the Branch County jail usually gets very over-crowded, but it's started already this spring...
Apr 17, 2015
AUDIO: Congressman Walberg supports repeal of Death Tax in U.S. House
WASHINGTON D.D. (WTVB) – The so-called Death Tax has been repealed in the House and is headed to the Senate. Congressman Tim Walberg says the federal estate tax ranks near the top of all the cou...
Apr 17, 2015
Coldwater baseball team splits with Marshall in league opener, Cardinal softball team sweeps Redhawks
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – In high school baseball Thursday, Coldwater earned a split at home against Marshall as they started league play in the Interstate Eight Conference and in the action that w...
Apr 17, 2015
Michigan's March unemployment rate drops to 5.6%, Branch County numbers due out later this month
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The jobless numbers in Michigan fell again in March to 5.6% statewide, which is close to the national average and a far cry from double digit numbers just a few years ago ...
Apr 16, 2015
Farmers market planned during the summer in downtown Coldwater
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Fans of fresh fruit and veggies are excited after the Coldwater City Council this week gave permission for a Farmers Market to operate this summer on every Saturday downto...
Apr 16, 2015
