A discussion titled "Theorizing the Senate Hearings" was held at the MSU Museum on Tuesday night. The discussion's panel was designed to bring the awareness to sexual assault through having conversations about whose voices are being heard, whose voices are being suppressed and how to deal with sexual assault on an emotional level.
Two seats on the Board of Trustees are now open and will be filled after the upcoming election Nov. 6. Four candidates are running for these open spots — Democrats Brianna Scott and Kelly Tebay and Republicans Dave Dutch and Mike Miller.
Republican Bill Schuette and Democrat Gretchen Whitmer discussed their stances on topics of higher education — like employment, tuition costs and sexual assault — before Michigan's gubernatorial election.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Michigan, and Democratic challenger Elissa Slotkin are the major-party choices for Michigan's competitive 8th Congressional District.
The State News spoke with the major-party candidates for attorney general. Here's their goals and plans if elected to the position.
Three ballot initiatives will be offered up to Michigan voters on Election Day. Capitol reporter Andrew Roth details what each one would mean for state residents.
Incumbent Democratic state Sen. Curtis Hertel of the 23rd District says campaigning has been a little lonely, as Republican challenger Andrea Pollock has kept a low profile.
Secretary of State candidates include Republican Mary Treder Lang, Democrat Jocelyn Benson and Libertarian Gregory Stempfle, and each have their own tactics for pursuing issues if elected.
Democratic Meridian Township trustee and treasurer Julie Brixie and Republican George Nastas are campaigning to replace state Rep. Sam Singh in the 69th House District.
Republican challenger John James looks to prevent incumbent Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow from winning a fourth consecutive term in the U.S. Senate.
An MSU report obtained by The State News shows the MSU Office of Institutional Equity found a former employee engaged in “severe, persistent, and pervasive unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” with an unnamed female claimant who was a student at the time."
An ordinance allowing medical marijuana provisioning centers failed and a debate over advance rental payments got heated — and personal — at Tuesday's eventful city council meeting.
The East Lansing City Clerk’s office will be open Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to issue and receive absentee ballots before the midterm elections.
Republican Bill Schuette’s gubernatorial campaign has cancelled more than $400,000 worth of previously purchased TV ads in most major Michigan media markets.
Elite gymnast sisters Tasha and Jordan Schwikert are hoping to hold ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics (USAG) doctor Larry Nassar, USAG and the U.S. Olympic Committee accountable in a new lawsuit. The two civil lawsuits were filed in the Superior Court of the State of California of Los Angeles Oct. 29.
Interim President John Engler appointed Marilyn Tarrant as an associate vice president and permanent head of the newly organized Office of Audit, Risk and Compliance Oct. 30.
On Saturday, Oct. 27, an armed gunman ambushed worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg, PA, killing 11 people. To remember and honor the lives lost in the shooting, hundreds of members of the East Lansing and MSU communities gathered outside the MSU Hillel in a candlelit vigil Monday night.
Award-winning broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts will speak at MSU as part of the annual Governor Jim Blanchard Public Service Forum Nov. 27.
Dr. Rebecca Campbell, a professor in MSU’s Ecological Psychology Department, gave a talk concerning the science behind the trauma of sexual assault and how best to help survivors Monday night at the Wonders Kiva. The talk described how the brain processes trauma and, afterwards, a Q&A session was held where survivors and other community members asked for a psychological perspective on how to move forward after trauma occurs.
The MSU Healing Assistance Fund, established in December to provide survivors of Nassar's sexual abuse with resources needed for counseling and mental health services, has been suspended since July.