Burns Harbor News

Hey, Quickly, I again saw the Portage physical education class bicycling the Prairie-Duneland Trail this morning.

U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar, D-Ind., is cosponsoring legislation to finalize an interstate agreement designed to protect Lake Michigan and her sister waters from thirsty intruders.

The cause of a Monday afternoon fire in a mobile home at Woodland Village Mobile Home Park is undetermined, but an initial fire investigation indicates the fire was unintentional.

The Burns Harbor Redevelopment Commission plans to assemble a citizen advisory committee both to help provide redevelopment ideas and to help the town score higher in grant applications to fund such projects.

Six people were hospitalized after McDonald's employees detected the odor of natural gas around lunchtime on Friday.

The Chesterton High School Class of 1973 is still accepting reservations for dinner until Thursday, July 24.

The new e-ticket capability in town of Porter Police cars has enabled officers to spend less time writing tickets and more time catching speeders.

A 14-year-old boy from Chicago Heights, Ill., may have drowned Sunday at the Dunes National Lakeshore at Kemil Beach.

Population growth in the Tri-Towns appears to have tapered slightly, with a total increase between 2006 and 2007 of 433 or 2.33 percent, compared to a total increase between 2006 and 2005 of 700 or 3.92 ...

Portions of the ArcelorMittal facility at Burns Harbor were evacuated on Thursday after a coke oven gas pipe ruptured, the Chesterton Fire Department said.

The Burns Harbor Town Council put in place another piece of the puzzle of planning for future growth Wednesday night, agreeing to seek a $100,000 grant from the Regional Development Authority, to provide the ...

The Ports of Indiana can now officially go by that name. The state group, which oversees Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor, has used that name for some time.

The Burns Harbor Redevelopment Commission voted unanimously Thursday authorizing its attorney to seek a contractual agreement that would grant right of entry onto the abandoned Standard Plaza property for the ...

The Burns Harbor Town council was in unanimous agreement about spraying for mosquitoes this season.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The FBI met with police and bank officials Wednesday to determine how many customers of Northern Indiana financial institutions had money stolen by hackers in Spain, Russia, Nigeria and ...

Earlier this year, the Porter County Sheriff's Department took over Valparaiso's emergency 911 dispatch operation.

Did Duneland look toward the Burns Harbor area? With the way it is growing, they should get the next school built in that under-served area.

ArcelorMittal Chairman Lakshmi Mittal has signed an agreement with international unions that guarantees minimum safety standards for the global steel company's more than 310,000 workers in 60 countries.

A federal jury tossed out claims that Portage and Burns Harbor police officers used excessive force when they arrested the son of Porter County judicial candidate William Suarez nearly five years ago.

Obviously, no one in Valparaiso knows that the American flag is supposed to be hung higher than any other flag hung next to it.