The state attorney general’s office has sent a letter to the federal government urging officials to deny a forthcoming request by an Upper Peninsula American Indian tribe to construct a casino in downtown Lansing.

Rising 20 to 60 feet high along either side of the Grand River, the gray sandstone formations known as the ledges speak to those who see them in different ways. For some, the 300-million-year-old cliffs are a historic touchstone.

Nsengiyumva Erasto’s family has adjusted to life in an unfamiliar country and faced the death of a teenage son in a van crash earlier this year, an accident that severely injured their teenage daughter.

MASON — Ingham County Animal Control officials said they’ve identified the owner of a severely neglected puppy found Monday at Mt. Hope Cemetery and will seek criminal charges.

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Sexton High held a school-wide assembly Tuesday with representatives of the Army National Guard coming from New Jersey to present the Big Reds boys basketball team with awards.

A longtime Lansing neighborhood volunteer was named the 2012 Woman of the Year by Greater Lansing Woman magazine Tuesday.

Revised plans for redeveloping the site of the former YMCA building in downtown Lansing call for an adjacent, publicly funded parking deck that would be paid for using millions in bonds.

Lansing’s two pension funds for municipal employees and police and fire personnel need an infusion of cash to the tune of $3 million, new reports from city actuaries show.

“If you build it, they will come.” It’s the most-repeated line from the movie, “Field of Dreams,” in which a character played by Kevin Costner carves a baseball field out of a cornfield.