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Six people shot at a gathering in Lansing, shooter remains at large

Six people, including a 5-year-old and a 14-year-old, were shot and injured around 9:45 p.m. Thursday, April 23, at the intersection of Chestnut and Hillsdale streets, according to the Lansing Police …

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How Lansing students can get $10,000 in scholarship funds

What is the Lansing Promise? Lansing Promise is a place-based scholarship program that plays an active role in helping students succeed now and in the future. We do this by raising money and …

From farm to cup: Inside Lansing’s oldest coffee roaster

Whether you realize it or not, you’ve probably had coffee roasted by Paramount Coffee Co. From its facility right across from Jackson Field, Paramount roasts coffee for its eponymous Paramount …

A conversation about artificial intelligence

It’s a simple question, asked in a small room in the basement of the Lansing Community College library. “So,” adjunct sociology professor Elizabeth Robison said, “how do you see AI …

Bayard Candle Co. welcomes foot traffic at new Williamston location

2020 was a good year for Ken and Merri Bayard, or at least it was for their fledgling candle company. The sudden boom in online shopping lit up their Bayard Candle Co., founded in 2018 and run …

Customers may not have noticed the downturn in Michigan’s marijuana market

There’s been a downturn - a seven-year-itch, a seventh-inning stretch - in Michigan’s marijuana market, for the first time ever. And that was before a major new tax kicked in at the start of the …

After Data Center Withdrawal in Lansing, Activists Balance Celebration with Vigilance

When Danny Raymond, 38, learned that a data center had been proposed in downtown Lansing, where she lives, she wasn’t particularly surprised. It didn’t surprise her that the mayor and the city …

Tanuki’s Trading Post reopens in Old Town

When Brandon Carlson and Onyx Bart’s Japan-centric hobby shop, Tanuki’s Trading Post, closed last year due to issues with its Michigan Avenue building, the husband-and-wife team knew their …

No data center in Lansing after Deep Green withdraws plans

During the city council meeting on Monday evening, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said a proposed data center in downtown Lansing won’t be built or considered in the city. The Lansing City Council …

Gas prices and driver shortages challenge public transit agencies

LANSING — Mass transit systems in rural areas in Michigan are facing major challenges today, the state’s top public transit executive says. Jean Ruestman, the administrator of the Office of …