Critics of a ballot proposal that would make the state responsible for providing affordable health care for all Michigan residents said the proposal might put too much pressure on the state’s already tight budget, while supporters said it will level the playing field for those who can’t afford coverage.
When proposed updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act are finalized, MSU will have little to worry about.
Eight years after her father closed Small Planet in downtown East Lansing because of the city’s redevelopment plans, 24-year-old Natalie Schneider is reopening the music venue in a new location.
America remains a nation of believers, but a new survey finds most Americans don’t feel their religion is the only way to eternal life — even if their faith tradition teaches otherwise — and MSU students said they felt the same.
Algae grown from sewage could be used to produce biofuels, says a company seeking a $7 million state grant to help prove it, along with help from MSU researchers.
In a time of hardship in the Midwest, MSU and 11 other research universities from eight states will gather Thursday and Friday to discuss the economy.
For organizers, volunteers are the “connect” in the first Lansing Project Homeless Connect — and still more are needed.
A former MSU freshman who pleaded guilty to throwing an empty beer bottle during the Cedar Fest riots has been sentenced to 30 days in the Ingham County Jail by East Lansing 54-B District Court Judge Richard Ball.
As the July 7 registration deadline for the Michigan House of Representatives primary approaches, Frank Lambert is the only candidate to challenge incumbent Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, to represent the 69th District.
MSU professor Rodney Whitaker’s focus inside room 103 of the Music Practice Building couldn’t be disturbed during Saturday’s rehearsal for the 12th annual East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival.
Joe Bell was one of the local bar owners who had to scramble last fall when there was no deal between Big Ten Network and Comcast Corp.
CSI camp, 4-H Exploration Days, Academic Orientation Program and more make the campus buzz with visitors as summer officially begins.
A collaborative effort between the MSU Sexual Assault Program and Sparrow Health System’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program, or SANE, helps sexual assault survivors to cope and recover by putting the power back into their hands.
Lady bug hotels, praying mantis hats and crepe paper flowers were just a few things on the agenda Saturday at East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, as the Children’s Gardening Club met and explored ways in which insects can be helpful in gardens.
As hamburgers and stuffed tacos across the country are going without tomatoes due to a salmonella outbreak, the fruit’s issues are hitting home with two more cases of the infection in Michigan reported Friday.
Carrying cash may be quickly becoming a thing of the past as credit card applications are filling MSU students’ mailboxes and plastic is filling the slots in their wallets.
Ashlee Baracy was crowned Miss Michigan 2008 Saturday at the 2008 Miss Michigan Scholarship Pageant. The program started at 7 p.m. at Muskegon’s Frauenthal Theater.
Ron Mason’s allegiance to MSU spanned nearly three decades — a tenure in which he held multiple athletic capacities and helped MSU flourish into a national hockey powerhouse. His legacy will be difficult to replace, but MSU will have to find a way.
A court hearing for a visiting MSU research associate from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center for illegal use of the Internet was postponed Thursday.
Home and family snapshots from this summer could be winners of the 2008 community photo contest, “The Essence of East Lansing,” if turned in to the city of East Lansing by Sept. 10 at 5 p.m.