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Lansing voters may do away with “golden parachutes” for top city appointees.A charter amendment on next week’s ballot would limit executive contracts to…

Lansing Mayor VirgBernero says the city council is “flirting with disaster."The council voted tonight to override Bernero’s veto of a change the council…

Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero saved the biggest news in his tenth State of the City address tonight until the end. The mayor proposed three city charter…

The Lansing Board of Water & Light fired its general manager today during a brief, hastily called meeting. With little discussion, the BWL commission…

The Lansing Board of Water & Light has chosen a longtime city firefighter as its new emergency operations manager.Trent Atkins is the city's assistant…

Lansing’s mayor may have real ‘power’ at his fingertips at times of emergency, if city voters agree in November.Tens of thousands of Lansing Board of…

Lansing residents will get some additional help next time a massive ice storm knocks out their electricity.Last December, about 40,000 Lansing Board of…

State utility regulators are the latest to give Lansing’s city electric utility poor marks for how it handled a massive ice storm in December.The Michigan…

The Lansing Board of Water and Light plans to hire someone to handle planning for future emergencies.One of the biggest criticisms BWL received after last…

An internal report finds a key communication system that failed during December’s ice storm had been malfunctioning for months before the storm.The…