Category Archives: Local News
Police look for hit and run SUV after man is struck in Union City
UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) - Area law enforcement agencies are looking for the driver of a SUV that struck and injured a Union City man on Sunday morning. The Branch County Sheriff's Department says 59-yea...
Mar 21, 2021 Branch County Sheriff's Department patch
Former Franklin School Demolition on Monday's CCS Board agenda
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - While the new Lakeland fourth and fifth grade building is ready to open on Western Avenue in Coldwater on April 12, the Coldwater Community School Board of Education is schedule...
Mar 20, 2021
Commissioners schedule April 30 public hearing on airport zoning ordinance amendments
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Almost one year after the Branch County Board of Commissioners approved the future scheduling of a public hearing to allow for comments on proposed amendments to the Branch Coun...
Mar 20, 2021 Branch County Court House (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Narrows Road mobile home destroyed in Friday afternoon fire
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The cause of a fire which destroyed a mobile home north of Coldwater on Friday afternoon is under investigation. Coldwater Fire Chief Dave Schmaltz says the blaze at 178 Narrows...
Mar 19, 2021
MSHDA administering COVID Emergency Rental Assistance program
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Michigan State Housing Development Authority is administering the COVID Emergency Rental Assistance and they are now accepting applications. The new program provides rent an...
Mar 19, 2021
Over 36,000 COVID-19 vaccines distributed, new Branch cases the highest since Jan 22
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency says in their latest update they have distributed over 36,000 COVID-19 vaccines to residents in the three counties they s...
Mar 19, 2021
BUSINESS BEAT: Capri Drive-In opening for new season next weekend
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Capri Drive-In has announced they will open for the 2021 season next weekend. The movies to be shown March 26, 27 and 28 will be posted in the next few days and everyone at ...
Mar 19, 2021 Photo courtesy of the Capri Drive In
Free career job skills training available for those who pay child support
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - Parents who pay child support in Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo and St. Joseph Counties, and who are unemployed or underemployed can register for free career and job skills training i...
Mar 18, 2021
January Branch County unemployment rate goes up to six percent
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - The January unemployment rate in Branch County went up to six percent according to data released on Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget. It ...
Mar 18, 2021 Bytemarks / CC
Suspect taken into custody, authorities say South Jefferson home fire was "deliberately set"
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Coldwater Public Safety officials say a suspect is in custody after a home in the 200 block of South Jefferson was destroyed Thursday morning by a fire that police believe was d...
Mar 18, 2021 Photo by MWC's Justin Lopshire
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Battle Creek, MI, USA
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