Chesterton News

The Chesterton Town Council will consider enactment at its meeting Monday night of the planned unit development ordinance which would govern Coffee Creek Crossing, the mall proposed for development on property ...

Ready to do the Time Warp again? And again? And again? If you know what that means, -- and you're excited by those words -- then you've got yourself a date with a "sweet transvestite from transsexual ...

Two juveniles were detained at the Porter County Juvenile Detention Center earlier this month on a delinquency charge of possession of an unpermitted handgun, Chesterton Police said.

I am a CHS Graduate and have grown up in the MTV era. I also know principle Goetz and I know that he would NOT agree to anything that would hurt students.

Since June 23 the Town of Chesterton has fined Coffee Creek Development I LLC , developer of the Village Green Townhomes at Coffee Creek Center, 26 times in an amount totaling $6,650, for violations of the ...

Does MTV bear a penchant to characterize today's youth and culture as steeped in sex, drugs and rock 'n roll? I, for one, would not like our town, let alone youth, to be associated with such behaviors.

A Chesterton-based restaurant has filed suit, claiming it is being illegally forced out of its site at the former Jewel store, which is slated to become a 24-hour emergency room facility.

A 17-year-old from Indiana battled 6 foot waves as he attempted to swim 29 miles across Lake Michigan from Porter Beach in Indiana to Chicago.

For Toni Brown, Bailly Homestead and Chellberg Farm provide an educational lesson on days gone by.

Imagine boarding a canoe -- maybe in downtown Chesterton or near a bridge in Hammond or at park in Gary -- and paddling past miles of woods, wetlands and wildlife.

Try as they might, 19 remonstrators weren't able to convince the Chesterton Advisory Plan Commission that rezoning 51 residential acres on the town's far southeast side for business/commercial use is a bad ...

A planned free-standing emergency department in Chesterton is part of a growing trend across the nation.

On a hot day in July two years ago, Linda Puftik-Lindsey came home from her midnight shift at the steel mill.

Employees of the Recycling & Waste Reduction District of Porter County will get 3 percent pay raises under the 2009 budget approved by the district board Tuesday.

"Are you in favor of the South Shore extension being brought to Valparaiso, Indiana if in fact it is going to require an additional local tax to either help build the extension or subsidize the service, yes or ...

The Porter Park Board voted 4-0 Tuesday to allow Duneland seniors to continue meeting at the Hawthorne Park community building, but now from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week.

If you've got a pet, Bark in the Park on Saturday is the place for you, the next event scheduled by the Duneland Business Initiative in Thomas Centennial Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. As Laura DeSousa told the ...

What had been watered down is now beefed up, and the question of the degree of authority which a Chesterton Town Manager would be granted now appears to have been answered: he or she would-consistent with state ...

Next week in the Town of Chesterton is beginning to look like a construction witching hour.

The owners of three parcels of land in Liberty Township, totaling approximately 85 acres and located on either side of Ind.