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By now a community institution, the Lansing Bike Party has been exploring the Lansing area on wheels each Friday during the warm months for 15 years.
The group’s sociable, slow rides to …
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5/14/25
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If you’ve ever passed the inviting bay doors of the Lansing Bike Co-op on Kalamazoo Street and wondered what goes on inside, behold! The all-volunteer, nonprofit group, which marked its 10th …
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5/14/25
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Plug the persistent problem of thousands of abandoned bikes on a sprawling college campus into the demand for affordable bikes and you get a perfect match.
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5/14/25
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We’ve covered a lot of ground.
Let’s stop for a minute, take a swig of water and regroup.
Where to next?
There are endless possibilities for connecting the Lansing River …
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5/14/25
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The 18th annual Ride of Silence is the year’s biggest and most emotional event for many members of the mid-Michigan cycling community, from occasional cruisers to regular commuters to avid …
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5/14/25
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Lansing is the hub of a unique web of bike and pedestrian trails that take users from the heart of downtown to gorgeous natural areas many miles away, with only a handful of at-grade crossings.
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5/14/25
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E-bikes, scooters and similar forms of 21st-century transport weren’t part of anyone’s plan for “non-motorized trails” 20 years ago, but they’re now a fact of life to …
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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5/14/25
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From the Lug-nutty clamor of the downtown riverfront to the owl hoots of Hawk Island Park, from Lake Lansing to Michigan State University, from Old Town to Valhalla — in any direction you …
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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5/14/25
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A while ago, I heard a rumor that Piazzano’s, one of my favorite Lansing restaurants, was for sale. The next time I stopped by, I asked owner Jim Farhat if that was true. He said it was, but …
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By BERL SCHWARTZ
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5/14/25
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In 1943, while their brothers and fathers were overseas fighting in WWII, students at the massive and elegant Sexton High School began their first day of classes in the brand-new building.
It …
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By BILL CASTANIER
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5/14/25
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Two days after her wedding, Maya Crawford learned she would lose her job.
As a youth program coordinator at the Edgewood Village Network Center, the 21-year-old AmeriCorps member had already …
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By LEO V. KAPLAN
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5/14/25
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Terry Brunk, a Lansing native and professional wrestling star known as “Sabu,” has died at 60. The announcement released by Elite Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment did not …
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5/14/25
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LANSING – Every spring for the last 15 years, Gene Gilliland and some friends have gone smallmouth bass fishing in Lake St. Clair in Southeast Michigan for a week.
He and one friend travel …
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By VICTORIA WITKE (Capital News Service)
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5/9/25
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LANSING – In Michigan, it only takes a sunny afternoon, a yard full of dead leaves and one bad decision to turn spring cleaning into a wildfire.
That’s why the Department of …
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By KAYTE MARSHALL (Capital News Service)
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5/9/25
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LANSING — A recent House Republican proposal would make it a state crime to bring people into the United States without authorization, conceal them from law enforcement or transport them once …
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By EMILIO PEREZ IBARGUEN (Capital News Service)
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5/9/25
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LANSING – Proposed federal budget cuts could cripple the ability of Michigan forecasters to monitor extreme weather and climate shifts, researchers warn.
A draft plan from the White House …
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By DANIEL SCHOENHERR (Capital News Service)
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5/9/25
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“Not even a school or a hospital is safe at this point,” Dora Moran told a room of Lansing-area Latino advocates fearful about the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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By LEO V. KAPLAN
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5/7/25
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I’ve been thinking lately about the role that organized neighborhood groups might play in countering the tendency these days to isolate ourselves in like-minded communities while resisting …
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By JOAN NELSON
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5/7/25
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A resident or traveler on Cleveland Street on the north side of Lansing is greeted with two boarded-up houses next to each other in the 900 block,
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By STEVE UNDERWOOD
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5/7/25
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Lansing City Council President Ryan Kost has proposed two amendments to ensure the city doesn’t get saddled with large bills if it red-tags an apartment complex and needs to put people …
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5/6/25
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