Lansing MI

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan State Librarian Randy Riley has died, the Library of Michigan announced Monday afternoon. Riley had served as State Librarian since 2014, having joined the organization in 1989. Since then, he held several positions, including reference librarian and head of Special Collections. The...

“She said ‘dad, they literally tried to kill me,’ and she just started crying. And they did, you know, they shot her. So, she’s shaken up,”

U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett has opened a new district office in downtown Lansing. The new fifth-floor office provides a professional, secure, and efficient workspace for Barrett and his staff. The new location also allows all visitors to access the office easily through the ADA-compliant main entrance and elevators; the...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Xavian Soto, a Jackson man charged in the killing of a Lansing teenager in the fall of 2024, has been sentenced. Soto, 20, was sentenced Monday after being convicted of second-degree homicide, along with a concurrent charge of carrying a concealed weapon, to 20 years and 10 months to 58 years...

After over five decades in the game, one local broadcaster is about to get the recognition he truly deserves. It's a story rooted in passion and dedication.

Michigan winters don't hand out many freebies. Snow? Endless. Potholes? Complimentary. But one rare, genuinely useful gift arrives January 10th through the 11th: Michigan's free snowmobiling weekend. Two glorious days where the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) looks the other way and says, “Fine. Go...

There is a certain Michigan moment when dinner decides itself, and tonight it points straight to an olive-topped legend. In Michigan, you follow the murmured local advice to The Peanut Barrel, trusting the crowd that never seems wrong and the rhythm of a place that knows its role. The room...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -In the 133-year history of the Lansing Police Department, a lot has changed. But for most of the past three decades, at least one thing hasn’t. When the information desk at the Lansing Police Department’s South Precinct is open for business, there’s a good chance Hazel Bethea is on the job.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Gas prices in Lansing are down 20.2 cents per gallon in the last week, GasBuddy reports. GasBuddy surveyed 177 stations in Lansing, which had an average gas price of $2.66 on Monday. Gas prices in Lansing are 13.4 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The cheapest gas station in Lansing […]

LANSING — A man who shot and killed another during an altercation involving a woman in November 2024 in north Lansing was sentenced Jan. 5 to more than two decades in prison. Xavian Soto, who was 19 at the time, apologized for killing Braylon Shepherd, 18, during the incident on Sadie Court, in the area of North...