Category Archives: Local News

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – For the time being, Branch County avoids its second jail overcrowding emergency of 2015. The courts took a pro-active approach on Friday and decided to release 14 inmates ...

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – AAA Michigan says gas prices have jumped $.10 since last week as Easter and Spring Break gave retailers a chance to cash in on the increased travel in Michigan. The averag...

LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Michigan students would get a leg up on earning a job in a high-skilled career or continuing their education under legislation approved by the state Senate on Thursday.Senat...

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – One of Michigan’s top elected officials will be in Coldwater tonight. Attorney General Bill Schuette will be the keynote speaker for the Branch County Republican Par...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...