This weekend's Great Lakes Folks Festival brings music and more from all over the world to downtown East Lansing. ELi's Sarah Spohn spoke to one local group that hopes to get you on the dance floor.

The Marble Garden began because two first-grade teachers wanted to see something besides brick and grass outside their classroom windows. ELi's Coleen Moyerbrailean has the scoop on how that garden has grown in 25 years.

Why does our publisher think you really should read our new "long-form" report about an East Lansing air conditioner?

The couple behind Owosso Organics started out with “a postage-stamp garden at our rental property in 1978." How did their garden grow? ELi's Ann Nichols has the dirt.

At a "listening session" last night, numerous citizens spoke of their hopes for the next CATA leader, but also named problems with bus route design, technology, services for persons with disabilities, transparency, and accountability.

Why are only three people running for Council this year? We asked around to get answers.

Who showed up at City Council but the latest lawyer for the former developer of the blighted area downtown. What happened?