The Latest Breaking News from Lansing

All three candidates running in the Aug. 8, 2023, primary election for Lansing City Council Ward 1 — incumbent Ryan Kost (nonpartisan), D. Taft (nonpartisan), and Michael VandeGuchte (nonpartisan) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run…

A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has been charged with murder by Michigan’s attorney general

The roughly $24.3 billion education spending bill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Thursday includes $125 million in targeted grants for public schools in mostly districts represented by Democrats in the Legislature's majority party.

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Tuesday that would allow for the sale of alcohol in college stadiums and arenas.

LANSING, Mich. — Attorney General Dana Nessel is leveling felony charges against 16 Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Donald Trump won Michigan's 2020 presidential election, launching criminal cases against top political figures inside the state GOP.

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Republican Party has about $93,000 in its bank accounts 16 months before the November 2024 presidential election, a revelation GOP insiders said paints an alarming financial picture for a political party that had full control of state government five years ago.

The Izzo family establishes endowment fund to support causes in the Lansing community

LANSING, Mich. — Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, one of the most vocal critics of the push to bring a Chinese battery manufacturer's plant to Northern Michigan, lobbied a decade ago on behalf of a Chinese lumber and plywood company.

DETROIT — Wynter Cole Smith's "heartbroken" relatives said they're planning a vigil for the 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a field on the city's east side Wednesday following a statewide search by police and volunteers after she'd reportedly been kidnapped from her Lansing apartment.

‘We can’t move on like this for much longer. We need to bring this child home,’ Wynter Smith’s grandmother Willeen Cannon told Fox

As dozens of police officers searched Lansing-area freeways Wednesday for clues to the whereabouts of 2-year-old Wynter Cole Smith, her alleged kidnapper was recovering from multiple injuries in a Macomb County hospital while law enforcement officials said they expect him to face criminal charges in two counties.