There's a place where the weather's always sunny, the music's always playing, and the food's always good. It's called New Orleans, and it's caught the eye of Lansing residents. Three restaurants of cajun or New Orleans-based cuisine have transplanted the popular style of cooking much closer than the 18-hour drive south.
With many students living off campus over the summer, affording food is something that many struggle with. Having a list of necessity items and strategies to grocery shop more efficiently is the best way to get a bang for your buck.
Due to the East Lansing city council's 50/50 ordinance passed in the 1980s, all area bars opened after the legislation passed must sell as much food as they do alcohol.
Of the plethora of businesses in the downtown, 54 of them are eateries, according to the City of East Lansing's website. From chain sandwich shops and faux-Mexican to labeled authentic asian food and American delicacies of the cheeseburger, East Lansing provides a palate of ways to fix the hunger of it’s residents and students.
East Lansing City Council passed Ordinance No. 1372 by a unanimous vote, effectively amending the section of the City’s Disorderly conduct code which prohibited persons to be within 300 feet of an open fire. The new ordinance effectively rids the previous ordinance’s vagueness, which had been a point of contention for many years since it was passed in 1999.
East Lansing police is investigating a bank robbery that occurred at the PNC Bank on Lake Lansing Road, according to an alert sent out Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, voiced his endorsement for nominee Donald Trump on June 2, in a column written for his local paper.
Criminal activity is pretty common in East Lansing during the school year when roughly 50,000 students are in the area for classes.
MSU's Abbott Road entrance, a historical area between Campbell Hall and the Union, is currently covered in fencing and construction equipment.
The movies and musical acts have been announced for the sixth annual Turner Street Outdoor Theater. The musical artists will take stage in the Cesar Chavez Plaza, also known as City Lot 56, in Old Town Lansing at 9 p.m. before the feature outdoor film of the night is shown at 10 p.m.
With the summer fast upon us, MSU students are flocking to the facebook group "MSU Craigslist" in an attempt to sell anything they can to prospective buyers. As leases end and desperation sets in, students are beginning to list an increasing variety of items to the page.
The racial issues in the Hollywood film industry became prominent when the nominations for the 2016 Oscar Awards were announced earlier this year.
Following the thefts of numerous pieces of artwork at the annual East Lansing Art Festival, ELPD was able to recover a significant amount of art, with the police pointing to intoxicated individuals making poor choices as the cause.
Welcome to The State News Weekly Political Review — a section dedicated to a recap of the election trails' events of the prior week.
Summer has come for Michigan State University students, but MSU's campus is still open with resources for the students.
An armed robbery was reported at Kedzie Street and Beech Street early Sunday morning where a handgun was seen, according to an MSU Alert.
The City of East Lansing announced its offices will be closed on Monday for Memorial Day.
The MSU baseball team needs one more win to advance to the championship in the Big Ten Tournament after claiming a 4-3 victory over Maryland Friday in the second round with a game-ending double play.
The East Lansing Police Department have found and recovered six pieces of artwork stolen during the East Lansing Art Festival. Police suspect that the work was primarily of an interrelated and intoxicated group, not an individual, a similar circumstance to previous vandalisms.
On May 31, students' access to MySpartanCareer, Michigan State University's career development platform, will end. It will be replaced with a new platform called Handshake.