Alec Gerstenberger

One of the apartment buildings that is changing the skyline of East Lansing opens in August 2019. WKAR News student reporter Alec Gerstenberger toured the 12 story Landmark on Grand River apartment units and created this photo gallery. Click here for a link to a story about the new apartments and cost concerns by WKAR News student reporter Alina Zhuravel.

Pedestrians and bicyclists will be the first in mid-Michigan to see a protected bike lane along southbound Bogue Street in East Lansing. Taking up the rightmost lane, the new path has lanes for bicycles and scooters in an effort to keep sidewalks clear for pedestrians. 

A new bridge along the Lansing River Trail east of Potter Park Zoo was unveiled on Tuesday. The galvanized steel bridge has replaced two older bridges in the same area and brought the trail higher above the flood level. 

As a part of National HIV Testing Day, there will be a free, confidential HIV testing event located at 2316 S Cedar St at the Forest Community Health Center in Lansing on Thursday 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 

This Saturday, a race benefitting ill children and their families will take place at the Rock at MSU. The race benefits The Davies Project, which employs volunteer drivers to take children with serious health conditions and their families to medical appointments.

The City of Lansing has finished the first phase of the review and appeal process for medical marijuana provisioning centers approving 20 for operation and denying 65 others. 

Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope said it was a long and painstaking process. 

“We learned a lot so we’re hoping to do it better with phase two with the next five licenses,” said Swope. 

While deciding which applications to approve and which to deny, Swope said he focused on the economic costs and benefits to the city.