Lansing MI

LANSING — A large group of Warren Consolidated Schools Performing Arts students took their talents to Lansing earlier this month for the annual Michigan Thespian Festival. The festival, created for high school students from across the state of Michigan, attracted 90 high schools this year. During the two-day event...

Kentwood — Right, left, down, start: students in computer teacher Andy Witczak’s enrichment class programmed characters on their Chromebooks, using code to move through a maze. “It tells the cat, or whatever character you have, what to do. It’s really fun,” explained sixth-grader Natailee Gardner. “I love being...

A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday at 12:51 a.m. EST for freezing rain until 4 a.m. EST for Muskegon, Montcalm, Gratiot, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia, Clinton, Allegan, Barry, Eaton and Ingham counties.

While giving a review of the past year in Lansing, State Representative Sarah Lightner discussed the removal of funds from local projects that weren’t spent in the previous year’s budget. Rep. Lightner said that the House Appropriations Committee, who made the move, found instances of fraud that warranted the move.

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Here’s a look at the latest business headlines across Lansing. Michigan Minimum Wage, Unemployment Benefits Rise with New Year. Michigan’s minimum wage rose to $13.73 an hour on Jan. 1, 2026, up from $12.48, under a state law that sets an annual schedule of increases.

The first long-term bubble barrier was installed in Amsterdam's Westerdok canal in 2019. The Grand River in Lansing could be getting the first bubble barrier in the United States. Credit: The Great Bubble Barrier. A new technology using bubbles to clean up plastic pollution in waterways could be making its...

Lansing Mayor Andy Schor has chosen Carrie Edwards-Clemons to lead the city’s fire department.

Biggby Coffee, the Lansing-based franchise with more than 450 outlets nationwide, has moved up more than 100 places in the last four years to hit No. 188 on the Franchise […] The post Biggby Coffee in Lansing Cracks Top 200 on Franchise Times’ Top 400 appeared first on DBusiness Magazine .

LANSING — By the time his remains were found in a swampy area off Allegan Road near Vermontville in April 2025, the Gregory Pennington tragedy already was in the public sphere. The 42-year-old Nashville man had been reported missing in December 2024, after his vehicle was found abandoned in a parking lot off Michigan...

The Spartans were quick to get on the board as it tallied 4:16 into the first to put Team USA in a deficit. The U.S., though, held strong as starting U.S. netminder Luke Carrithers (Maple Grove, Minn.) turned aside 15 shots in the opening frame to keep the Spartans at one tally after one.