Lansing - Gov. Jennifer Granholm's recent plea to increase the tax on cigarettes and liquor is being met with skepticism by some state legislators. Rep.
"This is a unique kind of event," said Rob Thompson, a Lansing Township fireman and event spokesperson.
Flower lovers can visit the Gardens Galore Tour 2004 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The event is sponsored by National City Bank, Great Lakes Capital Fund, and Local Initiatives Support Corporation to benefit the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition (GLHC). Ten area gardens are featured, including some in East Lansing, Okemos, Williamston and Lansing. Tickets for the event are $15, and are available at all area Beaner's Gourmet Coffee and Wild Birds Unlimited locations, Mole Hole, 234 S.
Lansing - In an attempt to get people who live in the Lansing area to see it as a vacation destination, local officials are offering visitors to mid-Michigan on Saturday the chance to visit Potter Park Zoo, the Michigan Historical Center and about 30 other local attractions all for a $1 ticket. "Be a Tourist In Your Own Town," an event sponsored by more than 20 area businesses and the Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau, will give residents the opportunity to buy a passport for $1 access to attractions, such as; the Fenner Nature Center, Impression 5 Science Center, both in Lansing, and the Nokomis Learning Center in Okemos. The passport is good from 10 a.m.
Three days after three people were killed in a home-built airplane crash, advocates of amateur-built aircraft are defending the genre's safety - claiming federal statistics portraying it as comparatively unsafe are invalid. Allen Ward, 52, from Ypsilanti, piloted the kit plane that crashed in Vermontville Township on Monday afternoon.
Lansing - Keeping control of his 2004 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor at 80 mph and whipping around nearly 90 degree turns wasn't the hardest part of Sean Khoo's three week trip to Lansing.
Although gas prices are at an all-time high, and the weather wasn't too inspiring, many local residents opted to stay home instead of traveling north or south, to experience what mid-Michigan had to offer this Memorial Day weekend. In Lansing, there was music, cheering and clapping on Saturday at the city's annual parade.
The MSU Extension Forage Area of Expertise Team, in cooperation with the Michigan Hay and Grazing Council, will hold a new pasture walk summer series.
People buying milk in May faced record prices and they might not see cheaper prices until next month, according to industry officials.
Road construction on Kalamazoo Street, west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, will begin today. The first phase of a two-phase project will close Kalamazoo Street to through traffic between Martin Luther King Jr.
Education experts from across the nation will gather to discuss the best ways to prepare, recruit and retain mathematics teachers in the nation's schools.
Lansing - More than just a fundraiser for Cristo Rey Church, Fiesta 2004 helped to instill interest in a rapidly growing minority population.
Vermontville - Three people died Monday after a home-built, single-engine airplane crashed in a rural town, about 30 miles west of Lansing. Though a positive identification could not be made, the victims appear to be a father and his two sons traveling from Ypsilanti to Billings, Mont., Eaton County Sheriff Rick Jones said.
Michiganians who like soft drinks may soon have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for the fizzy beverages. At least that's the way things might be, if State Sen.
Lansing - What began as a simple fundraiser 27 years ago for Cristo Rey Church, has evolved into the largest Latino festival in mid-Michigan.
MSU students are showing mixed responses to news of student loan interest rates reaching an all-time low, which would begin in July. Student loan lenders on Monday announced the interest rates will reach the lowest in the program's 39-year history.
Zoo visitors now have the opportunity to see one of nature's most rare and endangered species at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing.
Lansing - Despite rain and cold, the gymnasium of the new St. Vincent Home for Children was packed with people ready to dedicate the new building for abused and neglected children.
In 1943, William Smith was a lanky high school student, living day by day in his mid-Michigan home. Within a year, he had been drafted and found himself in Belgium fighting against Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. "It was hell," said Smith, now a Lansing resident.
Swimming ducks meander in the pond as foliage sprouts out along the shoreline. In the middle of this serene pond, a red golf ball washer stands upright, covered to its neck in water.