The East Lansing City Council will discuss rezoning plans for City Center II, expansion to city parking and a distracted driving resolution at its work session tonight.
Critics of a ballot proposal that would make the state responsible for providing affordable health care for all Michigan residents said the proposal might put too much pressure on the state’s already tight budget, while supporters said it will level the playing field for those who can’t afford coverage.
Eight years after her father closed Small Planet in downtown East Lansing because of the city’s redevelopment plans, 24-year-old Natalie Schneider is reopening the music venue in a new location.
For organizers, volunteers are the “connect” in the first Lansing Project Homeless Connect — and still more are needed.
As the July 7 registration deadline for the Michigan House of Representatives primary approaches, Frank Lambert is the only candidate to challenge incumbent Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, to represent the 69th District.
MSU professor Rodney Whitaker’s focus inside room 103 of the Music Practice Building couldn’t be disturbed during Saturday’s rehearsal for the 12th annual East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival.
Joe Bell was one of the local bar owners who had to scramble last fall when there was no deal between Big Ten Network and Comcast Corp.
A collaborative effort between the MSU Sexual Assault Program and Sparrow Health System’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program, or SANE, helps sexual assault survivors to cope and recover by putting the power back into their hands.
Lady bug hotels, praying mantis hats and crepe paper flowers were just a few things on the agenda Saturday at East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, as the Children’s Gardening Club met and explored ways in which insects can be helpful in gardens.
As hamburgers and stuffed tacos across the country are going without tomatoes due to a salmonella outbreak, the fruit’s issues are hitting home with two more cases of the infection in Michigan reported Friday.
Carrying cash may be quickly becoming a thing of the past as credit card applications are filling MSU students’ mailboxes and plastic is filling the slots in their wallets.
Home and family snapshots from this summer could be winners of the 2008 community photo contest, “The Essence of East Lansing,” if turned in to the city of East Lansing by Sept. 10 at 5 p.m.
Although City Center II has been the project at the front of many East Lansing residents’ minds, there are many other redevelopment projects occurring throughout the city.
The Michigan United Conservation Clubs is trying to expand the state’s 1976 bottle deposit law to include water bottles and other non-carbonated drinks by the end of the month.
After nearly a year of deliberation, the Big Ten Network and Comcast Corp. signed an agreement Thursday that will make the network available to Comcast subscribers for the 2008 college football season.
East Lansing residents will not bear the cost of the $116.4 million City Center II project, despite concerns, City Manager Ted Staton said.
Matthew Macon, who was convicted in May of killing two women and assaulting another last summer, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
The East Lansing City Council took the first step toward making City Center II a reality at its meeting Tuesday.
In order to control aquatic vegetation, the swimming beach at Hawk Island County Park, 1601 E. Cavanaugh Road in Lansing, will be closed today to allow for treatment of the lake’s weeds.
Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and the U.S. Olympic Educational Center, or USOEC, at Northern Michigan University, are reminding motorists that they can show their support for the USA Olympic team by purchasing an Olympic license plate.