Lansing News

LANSING, Mich. - About 20,000 athletes who compete in Special Olympics Michigan will benefit from a measure passed in the state legislature Wednesday.

SN: What do you hope to bring to the East Lansing community? CS: I'm young - I can deal with the student population.

Teachers in the Mattawan Consolidated School district have agreed to pay and benefits concessions for 2012-13, but the district still issued layoff notices to 17 teachers to help balance its budget, according to a press release from the district.

The Lansing tech nonprofit ITEC is inspiring local youth to become the next great engineers, programmers and movie makers through fun and interactive technology summer camps.

A committee of the Lansing City Council plans to review tax incentives to see if the projects delivered on their promises and how incentives are impacting the city's bottom line.

Bringing automotive revitalization leaders and experts to the Great Lakes Bay region was an exciting development for many.

Get ready to celebrate and mark your calendars for this summer's "Farmers Markets at the Capitol" which will take place Thursday, July 19 and Thursday, September 13 on the East lawn of the Capitol Building in downtown Lansing.

In fact, the researchers suggest tart cherries have the "highest anti-inflammatory content of any food" and can help people with osteoarthritis manage their disease.

Federal prosecutors say nearly 370,000 text messages comprise a large chunk of their public corruption case against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Lansing city officials said a final plan for redeveloping the former Red Cedar Golf Course could be in place as soon as Sept.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

LANSING, Mich. - U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan should have had an easy time knocking off a little-known opponent in the Republican primary and winning a sixth term this fall in his GOP-leaning district.

When Bill Weber got word in the spring that he was being sent back to GM's Spring Hill assembly plant, it was all he could do to hold back his emotion in front of other GM workers at the Lansing, Mich., plant where he had been working for eight months.

The high temperature Memorial Day in Lansing and Jackson was 92 degrees. A cold front moved through last night and touched off a few widely scattered showers and thunderstorms.

A Botetourt County woman is dead, after a small plane crashed in Michigan. Lansing, MI affiliate WLNS reports a man and woman from Daleville crashed a single-engine plane into a barn, shortly before 2:00 p.m. Monday.

Family members and friends honor Ricky Rosa, who passed away during his service in Iraq, walk past state Capitol on Saturday, May 26, 2012 morning in downtonwn Lansing during Memorial Day Parade.

A person canoeing on the Grand River spotted a body Saturday evening and called police.

Lansing police say authorities have pulled a body believed to be that of a woman from the Grand River.

At least two Lansing schools went on lockdown on Friday morning after an armed robbery nearby.

Fracking, the practice of pumping chemical-laced water underground to fracture the rock, has been practiced in Michigan for decades.