A large audience filled City Hall’s Courtroom 2, 410 Abbot Road, Tuesday night as City Council began their work session with discussion on the future of the Park District.
Many cities across the state cope with sewer system overflows when heavy rains strike, sometimes getting so overloaded during extreme weather that raw sewage spills into local rivers and streams.
The Christmas frenzy has hit Lansing already — the hunt for the Christmas tree that will grace the front lawn of the state Capitol building is on.
The next step involving the future of East Lansing’s Park District Planning Area, formerly known as the City Center II project, will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in courtroom No. 2 of City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, with discussions beginning of which developer will acquire the prized location.
The East Lansing 54B District Court, 101 Linden St., is now offering an amnesty program for anyone who has been issued a bench warrant on or before May 21 for failure to pay court fines and fees. The program will go until July 12 at 4:30 p.m.
MSU students, faculty and local business owners have taken notice to Michigan’s skyrocketing gas prices, which have driven East Lansing residents to rethink their travel and transportation decisions. Recent reports have slated Michigan as one of the most expensive states when it comes to gasoline prices, averaging $4.22 per gallon in the state, according to AAA’s daily gas report. Economics professor Charles Ballard said prices are higher in Michigan than most other states because it is far away from a lot of the refining capacity in the U.S.
The old Barnes & Noble building, 333 E. Grand River Ave., has a new user, according to East Lansing Planning & Community Development Director Tim Dempsey.
Grand River Avenue construction between Michigan Avenue and Bogue Street is a week ahead of schedule, according to a press release from the Michigan Department of Transportation, or MDOT. Traffic has been shifted to the newly paved eastbound side of the road.
Supermarkets just don’t quite cut it for chemistry sophomore Hadley Orr.
Prizes, sunshine, fish and smiling kids summed up the scene at the Mason Optimist Club’s annual Fishing Derby and Youth Sporting Event in Burchfield Park on Saturday.
Volunteers, residents, canines and cats gathered behind the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter for 30-straight hours trying to find the perfect match for animals and their potential owners Friday and Saturday at the eighth annual Adopt-A-Fest.
A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, examined marijuana possession arrest rates for the entire nation, with the authors, on average, finding African Americans are 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession.
Potter Park Zoo is now home to three new North American River Otter pups, with this being the first time an otter pup was born at the Potter Park Zoo.
Lake Lansing Park North and Lake Lansing Park South will both offer free entrance to patrons and parking today, Lake Lansing Park Manager Pat Witte said.
With many industries going through changes of technological advancements, a culture has developed for innovation in various fields, which now includes a local art gallery.
East Lansing’s Art Commission, or ELAC, met with the art selection panel Thursday to discuss the innovative new project called “East Lansing ‘Crack’ Art,” which looks to take advantage of sidewalk and wall cracks with new art aspects.
Gay MSU students potentially could be refused help from academic counselors after several irrelevant provisions slipped into the education appropriations bill recently approved by the Legislature.
Almost three-quarters of Americans say legalizing same-sex marriage is “inevitable” according to a new report released today from the Pew Research Center in Washington D.C.
The Michigan State Police, or MSP, Training Division and the MSU School of Criminal Justice teamed up to host the annual homicide scene preservation and investigation training program for law enforcement officers from all around the state.
MSU students and faculty might be looking at an increase in the frequency of the Michigan Flyer service as a result of a Federal Highway Administration grant.