Sophia Saliby

It sounds like a scene out of a movie.

Four specialists moving into an undisclosed location with only a map of landmarks to guide their way. They’re working under the cover of darkness, digging to find what they’re looking for in a race against the sunrise.

For the next five months, one Michigander will be traveling around the state's rustic campgrounds and gathering data as part of a project with the Department of Natural Resources.

A new documentary from PBS' Frontline and ProPublica airing on WKAR-TV investigates the rise of extremism and white nationalism in America.

WKAR's Sophia Saliby spoke with Richard Rowley who directed “American Insurrection.”

The Moores Park Pool has been a summer staple in Lansing for almost 100 years.

It has fallen into some disrepair in recent years, but now, work is being done to create a plan to preserve and revive it.

On May 18, 1927, Andrew Kehoe, an embittered member of the Bath Consolidated School Board detonated hundreds of pounds of dynamite in the school.

38 children and 6 adults were killed as a result of the blast, and the so-called Bath School Disaster remains the worst school massacre in American history.

Harold Schechter is a true crime writer who wrote “Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer.”

More than 2.5 million people in the state have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

On April 5, all Michiganders 16 and older will be eligible to get their shot.

WKAR put the call out for what listeners wanted to know about the vaccine and the ongoing pandemic.

Lansing musicians and bands have come together to a make a compilation album.

It's titled, "This Must Be The Place: Quality Hits From Lansing" and features 24 covers.

The East Lansing Public Library has its own seed library for visitors to take home and grow. Each person, no matter their experience with gardening, can “check out” up to five packets of heirloom seeds.

Ingham County has become the first in the state to ban hair-based discrimination. 

The Ingham County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the resolution Tuesday.

WKAR’s politics reporter Abigail Censky is leaving the WKAR newsroom.

Censky is headed to Kansas where she’ll be a statewide political reporter for the Kansas News Service.