The converted Red Barn House stands alone in fields in Oneida Township. In this house, Clinton Decker allegedly met his death at the hands of Joseph Sadlak. Five years of Eaton County sheriff reports reveal a bizarre and violent history leading up to the murder. more

The newest chief of the Lansing Fire Department is already calling Lansing "home." more

Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Don’t open the doors. There are no people.   more

A new governmental customer service hotline is now live in Lansing. more

Michigan universities are far behind many other U.S. universities in the number of Black students who graduate, according to new research published in the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. more

“They do their work in darkness, in secret.”  No, Marisol Quintanilla wasn’t talking about a group of crime-fighting vigilantes, like Spiderman or Batman.  more

Holland firefighters keep new smoke detectors and extra batteries in their vehicles and often install them on EMS calls.  “We’re called there for something totally different, like … more

Every year, Michigan legislators introduce hundreds of resolutions ranging from local interests, such as Suits and Sneakers Day and Equestrian Trails Day, to more sweeping ideas, like supporting policing changes such as anti-bias and de-escalation training.  more

Each day in Fishtown, a small fishing district in Leland, Amanda Holmes, the executive director of the Fishtown Preservation Society, receives a visit from a local elderly man who grew up in the area and likes to check preservation efforts. more

When the Civil War erupted, Michigan was one of the first –perhaps the first – state to send troops to Washington in response to President Abraham Lincoln’s urgent plea for help.  more

The Lansing City Council is exploring amendments to burn permit ordinances. more

One northside Lansing landlord could soon owe the city $20,000. more

Since it first opened in 2011, then inside Absolute Gallery, Bradly’s HG has uprooted to a few locations around Old Town — but each move has led to growth for the local retail shop.   more

Plans are once again underway to build an outdoor entertainment venue in Old Town. more

Employees and visitors at Lansing City Hall were met with some stricter security measures at the office on Monday. more

Drive too fast on Saginaw Street and you might miss this week’s Eye Candy: the Sparrow St. Lawrence Hospital near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The southeast section of the campus shown above is tucked back a hundred feet or so from the road. It has a modest courtyard that softens the masonry-heavy structure, but its trees and shrubs conceal some of the building’s best features from a passing glance. A more purposeful look reveals an array of architectural details and character.   more

Every Saturday night, Brent Alberts, better known by his radio name Wally Londo, walks into 94.9 WMMQ-FM as local listeners light up the station’s phone lines with requests for some obscure songs rarely heard on terrestrial radio.   more

On April 23, 2022, the first sunny Saturday afternoon in months, about 1,000 people ducked into a windowless labyrinth of concrete, cables and electronics, housed in a dim, zeppelin-sized bunker on the south campus of Michigan State University. They listened patiently as scientists shouted themselves hoarse, through pandemic masks and over the roar of machinery, about radio frequencies, dipole magnets and other arcane subjects.  more

The Lansing chapter of Black Lives Matter is expected to gather at the Ingham County Jail in Mason at 3 p.m. to demand justice for a man who was shot by police. more

“We didn’t know what to expect when opening. Biggby (a coffee shop chain store), was previously here, but it closed during COVID, and I saw it as a good opportunity,” Tarek Chawich … more