Mark Hollis has realized one of his professional dreams – saying today “it’s surreal” that he will be on the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee for a five-year stint starting Sept. 1.

A Lansing Economic Development Corp.

The Lansing Economic Development Corp. board this morning unanimously approved a comprehensive development agreement for the proposed Lansing Kewadin casino.

EAST LANSING — Michigan State men’s soccer coach Damon Rensing has signed nine players who will join the Spartans this fall.

After months of trying, Hawk Island Snow Park in Lansing finally had its grand opening this past weekend.

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The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 13,000 on Tuesday for the first time since May 2008, when the Lehman Brothers investment bank was solvent, unemployment a healthy 5.4 percent and the worst of the Great Recession months ahead.

Thousands in the Lansing area are grasping at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, sleeping on mattresses in the hallways of homeless shelters and lining up for warm meals at churches or wherever they can be found.

Lansing City Council members told city and tribal attorneys Monday that they haven’t received answers that satisfy their questions about a proposed tribal casino downtown.