Category Archives: Local News

Branch County to get $518,000 as State Treasury distributes Adult-Use Marijuana Payments
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - The Michigan Department of Treasury has announced that more than $59.5 million is being distributed among 224 municipalities and counties as a part of the Michigan Regulation and ...
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023 Torben Hansen / CC

Branch County school officials discuss available mental health resources
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - School officials from around Branch County gathered last Friday in hopes of there will be a strong collaboration in the future between school and community health resources....
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023 Jernej Furman / CC

Calhoun ISD looking for board candidates, information now available from Calhoun Clerk's office
MARSHALL, MI (WTVB) - The next scheduled biennial meeting convened by the Calhoun Intermediate School District to fill its board positions will be June 5, 2023. There are three six-year term vacancies...
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023 Courtesy of Calhoun County Government

BUSINESS BEAT: Branch County Association of Realtors(R) and the Coldwater Area Chamber to Host Monthly Coffee Hour
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch County Association of Realtors and the Coldwater Chamber of Commerce have announced a partnership to host a monthly coffee hour at the Hope Cafe in downtown Coldwater...
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023

City Council approves budget amendments, general fund deficit reduced to $19,000
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater City Council approved proposed budget amendments to the City's General Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30 on Monday night which reduces the budgeted operation...
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023 Henry L. Brown Municipal Building in Coldwater (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)

Nearly 600 Consumer's Energy customers in Branch County without power for a sixth day
JACKSON, MI (WTVB) - Power restoration efforts following last Wednesday's major ice storm are almost done in Branch County. As of 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, Consumer's Energy reports 595 customers in ...
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023 Courtesy Consumer's Energy

14 persons arrested during St. Joseph County drug and weapons bust
LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - 14 people were arrested including a man who was wanted for a Kalamazoo County homicide during a Sunday drugs and weapons bust in St. Joseph County. Deputies executed a s...
Jim Measel Feb 28, 2023 Daniel / CC

Steuben County opening sandbag filling site at Highway Department
STEUBEN COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Recent rainfall has given to rising water levels throughout Steuben County, Indiana as lakes, rivers, and streams are starting to swell. The ground is also saturated from t...
Jim Measel Feb 27, 2023 zaphad1 / CC

Bad weather slows Consumers restoration efforts, outage numbers go back up
JACKSON, MI (WTVB) - The cold and wet weather slowed restoration efforts by over 600 Consumers Energy crews, contractors, and line workers from outside Michigan on Monday. Those who have been without ...
Jim Measel Feb 27, 2023 Photo courtesy of Consumer's Energy

Woman ordered to serve 12 years in 2021 Steuben County beating of three-year-old
ANGOLA, MI (WTVB) - A Fort Wayne woman was ordered to serve 12 years in prison on Friday in Steuben County Circuit Court after being arrested in October 2021 following the beating of a three-year-old ...
Jim Measel Feb 27, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC

