Category Archives: Local News

BATTLE CREEK (WTVB) – Branch County's representative in the House on Capitol Hill, Republican Tim Walberg, has signed on to an effort to have the headquarters for Cyber Security in the U.S. to b...

COLDWATER LAKE (WTVB) – Today's severe weather forecast for Branch County comes two days and fifty years following the deadly April 11th 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado outbreak that claimed 21 lives a...

DETROIT (WTVB) – A federal judge has ruled that the Michigan's Sex Offender Registry Act’s requirement of a 1,000 foot buffer around schools is too vague to be constitutional. The ACLU's M...

LANSING (WTVB) – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan officials say that small group customer rates will go down, based on a filing slated this week with state regulators. Employers who renew duri...

SHERWOOD (WTVB) – A major bridge project in Branch County is set to begin on Monday, April 20th. Branch County Road Commission manager Trent Arver announced on Tuesday the schedule for the nearl...

COLDWATER (WTVB) – If you can believe the energy experts, the $2.35 a gallon gas prices we're paying now at the pump in the Branch County area may be as high as they're going to get for the rest...

SHERWOOD TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) – Two motorcyclists were seriously injured last night in Branch County when they collided with a car along Tuttle Road in Sherwood Township. It happened around 6:45 ...

QUINCY (WTVB) It was reported as a car-deer personal injury accident early today with two drivers hurt east of Quincy on U.S. 12 near Briggs Road. Turns out the deer dodged a van that hit the brakes t...

KALAMAZOO (WTVB) – The West Michigan economy shows an improved growth rate. So says Regional Economist Dr. Brian Long, as his monthly survey of purchasing managers indicated a doubling of the ne...

The Branch County Road Commission's springtime road weight restrictions will be lifted as of 6AM Thursday. The so-called frost law load reducing provisions went into effect nearly a month ago on March...