For local residents already facing the lofty combined costs of groceries and high gas prices, the loss of millions of acres of Iowan crops due to floods may bring an unwelcome jump in food prices.
The MSU police K-9 units worked on tracking scents as part of a bimonthly routine training program Tuesday.
State tax credits approved for 11 Michigan businesses and cities by the Michigan Economic Growth Authority, or MEGA, on Tuesday may keep and create more than 3,900 jobs for Michigan residents, including university students.
After months of discussion and public hearings, the East Lansing City Council could come to a decision on the land use plans for City Center II at its meeting tonight.
When East Lansing businesses and residents think of items to protect from thieves, they may be missing one big thing — the inside of their air conditioning units.
Adam Kirschbaum is going home this weekend to his family in Davenport, Iowa, but instead of relaxing, the visit may include sandbagging and preventing further water damage.
They can be a useful way to take and organize notes, or they can be a distraction used to surf the Internet, but many professors are split on how to deal with laptops in the classroom.
Members of Climb for Hope, including two MSU graduates, left for Tanzania Sunday to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, as a way to raise money to find a viable treatment for breast cancer by 2009.
Lauren Walters, a music education junior, said she still hasn’t been billed for the hole her roommate put in the ceiling of her Gilchrist Hall dorm room. Other MSU students haven’t been as lucky.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order Monday activating the Michigan National Guard for the first time in nearly a year, to assist jurisdictions operating under a state of emergency because of storms that swept through the state earlier this month, according to a press release.
Although tree climbing could be thought of as an ordinary summer activity for some, high school students will be reaching for the highest limbs as a way to learn about German culture. After all, the world champion tree climber is German.
MSU Board of Trustees member Faylene Owen will be one of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s, D-N.Y., 69 delegates from Michigan heading to the Democratic National Convention in August, but she isn’t planning on supporting Clinton much longer.
Michigan residents believe juvenile offenders deserve second chances such as rehabilitation or parole, according to surveys conducted over two years by MSU associate professor of social work Sheryl Kubiak.
The first time he was on a sailboat, Alex Clark said he was 2 months old. Now, he and his brother, Tim Clark, a 2007 MSU graduate, have carried on the family tradition, teaching classes at the MSU Sailing Center, as their father did before them.
Even as the MSU Board of Trustees approved a 6.8 percent increase in tuition for in-state undergraduate students, much of the meeting’s talk Friday centered around trying to reduce costs.
Those within the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences are mourning the death of a man who led the way in the journalism field.
The East Lansing City Council will hold its June 17 meeting at a different time and location.
As many families think of fancy restaurants for the celebration of Mother’s Day, it was golf courses that saw the influx of patrons Sunday, as local residents flocked to the greens on Father’s Day.
Students and residents interested in becoming more involved with city government, or expanding their leadership skills, can take part in the second annual East Lansing Emerging Leaders Program.