Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Winter Weather Advisory issued for Branch, surrounding counties
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Branch County, along with St. Joseph, Hillsdale, Calhoun, and Steuben Counties, will be under a Winter Weather Advisory beginning tonight at 7 p.m. and lasting through 7 p.m...
Jan 30, 2021 The January 30, 2021 winter weather overview from the National Weather Service Northern Indiana Office.
Child molesting suspect arrested after 4 month investigation
ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) - A man wanted on two counts of child molesting in Steuben County was arrested Friday afternoon at a South Bend Greyhound bus station. 35 year old Preston Allen Young was apprehended...
Jan 29, 2021
BISD Board approves expiration extension for COVID-19 benefits
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Following the expiration of paid sick leave provisions under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Branch Intermediate School District Board of Trustees passed a reso...
Jan 29, 2021
Despite COVID-19 shutdown, Tibbits reports $78,000 profit for '19-'20
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Despite the shut down of the Tibbits Opera House for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported during the Tibbits Opera Foundation and Arts Council annual meeting on ...
Jan 29, 2021 Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Jonesville COVID-19 vaccination clinic moved to high school
JONESVILLE, MI (WTVB) - The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency has announced that it is changing the venue of Saturday's Jonesville COVID-19 vaccination clinic from Jonesville Middle ...
Jan 29, 2021 Alachua County
Coldwater Board of Review will meet by appointment in March
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Residents of the City of Coldwater are being reminded that the City's Board of Review will be meeting by appointment between March 8 and 10 for anyone wishing to appeal their pr...
Jan 29, 2021
BUSINESS BEAT: Linda Hyska officially retires from the CBPU on Friday
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A longtime Customer Service Representative of the Coldwater Board of Public Utilities is leaving after nearly 33 years of service. Linda Hyska officially retired on Friday thus ...
Jan 29, 2021 Linda Hyska is retiring from the Coldwater BPU after working there for 33 years. Photo courtesy of the CBPU.
Branch County could get "moderate" snowfall Saturday night, WS Watch in Indiana
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - National Weather Service forecasters are predicting Branch County will get a moderate snowfall Saturday night and Sunday morning. Most of Branch County is expected to get betwee...
Jan 29, 2021
Unemployment around Michigan went back up in December
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - The unemployment rate in Branch County went up three-tenths of a percent in December according to data released on Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management &a...
Jan 29, 2021 Sean MacEntee / CC
Three local restaurants reported in violation of indoor dining ban
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - It was reported during Thursday's Community Health Agency Board of Health meeting that staff from Environmental Public Health Services conducted 49 enforcement inspections durin...
Jan 28, 2021 Amy G / CC
