Category Archives: Top News Stories
Rotary Park $1.5 million improvement project set to begin next month
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A major improvement project for Rotary Park is scheduled to begin in early September. In March the Coldwater City Council approved the project and awarded the construction contr...
Aug 28, 2025 Rotary Park sign (courtesy City of Coldwater)
Union City schools placed on lockdown Wednesday
UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) - Union City Schools were placed on lockdown for a time on Wednesday while police conducted an investigation regarding a person of interest connected to an investigation in anoth...
Aug 28, 2025 BreizhAtao / Depositphotos.com
DDA Board told two new businesses will open soon in downtown Coldwater
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County Economic Development Coordinator Erin Veysey told the Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors on Wednesday morning that two new businesses will be openin...
Aug 27, 2025 Courtesy City of Coldwater You Tube channel
Wortz says the house passed budget cuts $5 billion in waste and includes funding for roads and schools at no extra expense to tax payers
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB)- A new 2026 state budget was finally passed out of the Michigan State House on Tuesday. State Representative Jennifer Wortz from Quincy, says the $78 billion budget passed by a vo...
Aug 27, 2025 35th District Republican State Representative Jennifer Wortz of Quincy (courtesy MI House Republicans)
Coldwater ties 109 year old record low temperature Wednesday morning
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Coldwater tied 109 year old record low temperature this morning. Just after 6 a.m. this morning we bottomed out at 40 degrees, tying the all time record low for August 27th that...
Aug 27, 2025 RomanenkoAlex / Depositphotos.com
Grand Rapids artist finishes work on Children's Museum mural
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - After two weeks of work, a new mural on the side of the Children's Museum of Branch County is now in place. Rhiannan Sibbald Studio of Grand Rapids performed the work on the mas...
Aug 27, 2025 Courtesy Downtown Coldwater Facebook page
Suspect sought after shots fired in Coldwater Tuesday night
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Coldwater Police are looking for a suspect who fired shots in the area of Cutter Avenue in Coldwater overnight. Very few details have been released in relation to the shooting, ...
Aug 27, 2025
USDA $1 million grant for Branch County broadband project approved
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch County broadband project which will provide internet service to underserved areas has gotten a financial shot in the arm from the federal government. County Administr...
Aug 26, 2025 Richard Patterson / CC
Summer road projects continue to progress in Coldwater
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - As we continue to drift toward the end of summer, City Manager Keith Baker says progress continues on a number of road and infrastructure projects in the city and the work will ...
Aug 26, 2025
Maple Lawn has no plans to ask Branch County for financial assistance
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Despite all kinds of financial struggles in recent years, the annual Maple Lawn Medical Care and Rehabilitation Facility report accepted by the Branch County Board of Commission...
Aug 26, 2025 Maple Lawn Medical Care and Rehabilitation Facility (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
