Parking was a hot topic Tuesday night when city officials examined the catch-22 of limited parking downtown and about $400,000 decrease in the city parking fund.
As the spring semester winds down and many students prepare to return home or travel for jobs, internships or pleasure, there remains a major obstacle in their collective way: moving out.
With the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide today, the MSU Armenian Club decided to paint the rock on Farm Lane on Tuesday night in remembrance of the 1.5 million Armenians who lost their lives during what is known as the forgotten genocide. The State News talked to Helen Attar, president of the MSU Armenian Club, to find out more about the group’s mission.
International relations and media and information freshman Monica Watt knew she would go to college her whole life, but being the first one to attend college in her family was not easy. From trying to understand financial aid packages to knowing what to expect in college, Watt said making it through her first year at MSU has been tough at times.
This Friday, students won’t need to do anything for a Klondike bar — thousands of bars will be given away for free after MSU came out on top against the University of Michigan in “Michigan vs. Michigan State Klondike Challenge.”
The shovels were for the renovation. The hops were for beer.
State lawmakers introduced a bill last week to raise Michigan’s minimum wage from $7.40 to $10 by 2016.
It’s hard not to stop, watch and take photos when you see someone surfing on MSU’s campus.
A buzz of biology, chemistry and the environment began to fill Holmes Hall Monday afternoon as the first day of the Lyman Briggs College Research Symposium took full swing.
The Sault St. Marie Tribe of the Chippewa Indians has been given a little less than a month to proceed with an appeal of a federal ruling blocking the attempt to build a casino in Lansing.
MSU Trustee Mitch Lyons faced some criticism Friday evening when he turned to his personal Twitter account to express his disgust by recommending punishments for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect, which included removing “his limbs without anesthesia so he can rot in prison.”
Brought on by the wettest month in the history of April in the Lansing area, the flooding of the Red Cedar River reached 7.69 feet this weekend, the highest level since February 2001.
Less than a week after the tragic events at the Boston Marathon, Lansing hosted the nation’s first marathon since the incident, but not without mention of the events and an increased security for the event, according to race officials.
Eleven professional drag kings and queens strutted their stuff down Bourbon Street at the Official MSU Drag Show on Friday in the International Center. With a Mardi Gras theme, the Crossroads Food Court was transformed with green, purple and yellow decorations, such as feather boas hanging from the ceiling, spotlights and a stage.
The East Lansing Public Library hosted its second-annual Books, Bites and Bids Library Fundraiser on Friday. About 350 East Lansing community members attended and thousands of dollars were raised.
For Department of Psychiatry professor James Hillard, it was obvious how important events such as Friday night’s Relay For Life of Michigan State University were in his battle against cancer.
Though best known as the reason MSU will be home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, to friends and family, Henry Blosser was a gardener.
?As of 2:45 p.m., the flooding of the Red Cedar River has reached 7.69 feet, the highest since February 2001, said Jim Maczko, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
The beloved Sparty statue’s cleaning following this weekend’s unwelcome paint job in University of Michigan colors cost nearly $300. The statue itself is valued $10,000.
Nutritional sciences senior Andrew Singler texted a series of profane messages to Okemos resident Connor McCowan the night he reportedly drove to Singler’s apartment and stabbed him until he fell bleeding onto the floor, Feb.