This upcoming weekend is the final set of races for the season at Berlin Raceway. We have tickets all week for you to win! Listen to Kim St. James for text-to-win keywords during your workday to win a pair of tickets to the races this weekend. Listen on the air, on your smartspeaker, online, or on the free classic rock...

Billy Idol will be at Acrisure Amphitheater this Friday and we have your last chance to win tickets! Listen to Travis all week! He'll be giving out text keywords each day for you to enter and win. Listen on the air, on your smartspeaker, online, or on the free classic rock 97 LAV app! Downloading the app also gives you...

Got plans for Labor Day weekend? Check out the 22nd Annual Cars for Cancer event in Muskegon. Presented by Different Strokes Car Club, the annual fundraiser supports the Johnson Family Center for Cancer Care while bringing together classic car enthusiasts from across West Michigan. The weekend kicks off Sunday, Septemb...

When Billy Strings brought more than 28,000 fans to Ionia for his inaugural Freak Fair festival, most people had no idea it was also a fundraiser for the city that raised him. After the event, Strings revealed that once expenses are paid, all remaining profits will be donated back to Ionia. The two-day festival drew ma...

A familiar voice at LMCU Ballpark is getting ready to call his final game. Dan Hasty, the longtime play-by-play announcer for the West Michigan Whitecaps, is wrapping up his final season with the team after 12 years behind the mic. Hasty's broadcasting career grew out of a lifelong love of baseball after realizing his ...

A longtime part of Michigan's media landscape is coming to an end. MLive Media Group announced it will stop printing all of its newspapers by December 2026, marking a full transition to digital publishing. The final printed editions, including The Grand Rapids Press, Kalamazoo Gazette, and Muskegon Chronicle, will be d...

When former Tigers ace Tarik Skubal was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, he didn't just take his glove and gear with him. He also took the beloved espresso machine that had become a fixture in the Tigers' clubhouse. Why take it? According to Skubal, the decision came from his wife, Jessica. He joked that he wanted to...

A 58-year-old Kent County woman is celebrating a life-changing win after scratching off a $1 million Michigan Lottery ticket. The lucky winner purchased the winning $1,000,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier ticket at Aikan Liquor in Kentwood. She recently claimed the prize and chose a lump-sum payment of about $693,000. Her ...

Eric Clapton has teamed with Martin Guitar for the Crossroads 2026 Collection, a new lineup celebrating his long connection with acoustic guitars. The...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are taking their new short film Hidden In Pieces to select cinemas in September 2026, pairing the 22-minute project with classic films...

Violet Grohl put her own spin on a classic from The Cure during a recent Like A Version session, choosing the band's 1992 song High for a stripped-dow...

Noel and Liam Gallagher received a warm reception at the Venice Film Festival as their Oasis documentary Don't Look Back in Anger premiered to an exte...

Andy Williams, the guitarist best known for his work with Every Time I Die and his professional wrestling career as The Butcher, has died at age 48. H...

Carrie Underwood added an unexpected dose of nu-metal to her set at the Velocity Festival in Dyersville, Iowa, on September 5, 2026. During the perfor...

System of a Down is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Toxicity, the album that became one of the defining releases of the band's career. As part of ...

KISS has returned to the Top Album Sales top 10 with KISS Destroys Anaheim '76, an archival live release documenting one of the band's major early con...