Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attendees of the Protect Democracy rally at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 19, 2025. Photo by Erick Diaz ...

Michigan is 189 years old. What to know about the capital, history and more.

Michigan's first capitol was located in Detroit, but the city was designated by the state's inaugural constitution as the temporary seat of state government. Detroit wasn't selected as the permanent ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Thousands of Michigan workers at the State Capitol on Wednesday afternoon as part of the “Save Our Jobs, Fund Our Roads” rally, calling on lawmakers to pass a “long-term, ...

Michigan's capital city has a new namesake after a recent naval christening ceremony in Alabama. The USNS Lansing is an ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff at the Michigan Capitol to honor former state Sen. Bruce Patterson, who died Monday. He was 78. Patterson was a ...

Lansing — A public body that oversees the management of the state Capitol voted Monday in favor of an undisclosed security measure that will spend taxpayer dollars with no clear explanation about how ...

Michigan has had three capitols since it became a state, but only one remains standing today after fires in the late 1880s destroyed the first two. Nothing can fully replicate the experience of ...