Good morning, Lansing.

The Lansing Chili Cook-Off and Fall Festival will take place Saturday, Oct.

24 at Jackson Field. Guests will enjoy unlimited chili tasting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.—plus live music, contests, a beer tent, a kids’ zone, and carnival rides; tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for children.

Data from MDOT shows that car–deer crashes, which made up 40% of last year’s 58,000 incidents, are rising starting this month and officials advise drivers to use high beams and avoid swerving — extra caution is needed both downstate and in the U.P.

Illinois Poet Laureate Marc Turcotte, who grew up near Lansing, returns to help kick off this weekend’s Poets Roundtable at MSU’s Kellogg Center.

The event features a reading with Gordon Henry Jr. on Friday and registration-required workshops on Saturday.

Wharton Center will host a special screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in a new 4K restoration on Sunday, Oct.

25 featuring Barry Bostwick and the local Rocky shadow cast. The event includes audience participation, a costume contest, and a prop bag with each ticket — and will honor late Tim Curry.

Lansing Promise announced a new partnership with Oakland University to offer Lansing School District students a path to a bachelor’s degree, plus representatives will discuss the new program on Tuesday afternoon via a News 10 livestream.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will release nearly 7,300 pheasants in the Lower Peninsula for the ring-necked pheasant hunting season, which opens today and runs through November 14 + tracking will occur from December 1 to January 1.

MSU Extension and MDARD announced a five-year, $3.5 million partnership on Tuesday to help farmers manage PFAS contamination.

The initiative aims to protect Michigan agriculture and guide future remediation steps.

Michigan Medicine and UM Health-Sparrow are expanding precision oncology in Lansing to improve cancer treatments for patients.

The program, announced recently, offers local targeted care.

The NCAA approved a plan on Oct.7 to split the men’s college soccer season between fall and spring, which will move the championship to spring and give players more recovery time + the proposal is in a rescission period until Nov.6 and may change MSU’s schedule.

Michigan State freshman goalie Joshua Ravensbergen earned the Big Ten Hockey Third Star of the Week with 25 saves on 26 shots in a 5–1 win over RIT on Saturday, marking his first weekly honor this season.

The Spartans will play two nonconference games in New Hampshire this weekend.