Kevin Lavery
Kevin Lavery has been news director at WKAR since September 2006.
Just prior to coming to WKAR as news director, Lavery was a reporter at KWMU in St. Louis, Missouri, covering local politics, government, and biotechnology issues.
Lavery's journalism career began in the Navy. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana; worked as news director and television producer for American Forces Network-Japan; and served in Antarctica as radio program director at the McMurdo Station Research Facility on Ross Island.
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A unionized Starbucks store near the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing joined more than 100 others nationwide Thursday to strike for better working conditions.A handful of baristas picketed outside the East Lansing store in a strong late morning snowstorm to call for a fair contract. -
Michigan State University is recruiting childcare providers across the state to participate in a nutrition awareness initiative.
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The city of East Lansing honored veterans Thursday with a small ceremony in a place that bears witness to the memory of one of its most storied residents. Under a crisp blue sky, three Marines in even crisper dress blue uniforms laid wreaths at a set of black stone markers outside the Hannah Community Center.During the Korean War, Second Lieutenant Sherrod Skinner shielded his fellow Marines from a bomb blast that took his life and earned him the Medal of Honor.
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A group of state officials and business leaders is calling for more investment in a statewide child care program with a unique funding model.
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The head of a mid-Michigan software company has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal information of hundreds of election workers in California.
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A new Michigan State University report indicates state educational policies are hurting rural school districts.
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The steel frame of a new electric vehicle battery cell plant is now under construction near Lansing. It will be operated by Ultium Cells, a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution.
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The state of Michigan is offering more than $83 million in grants to 22 communities to bolster their economic revitalization efforts. One of those projects is in Lansing.
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Michigan voters can now apply for an absentee ballot in advance of the November 8 general election.
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Waterfowl season begins next week in Michigan, and state wildlife officials are urging hunters to watch for signs of avian flu in game birds. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it’s seeing a recent uptick in the number of wild birds infected by highly pathogenic avian influenza.
