Portage News

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 South Bend Police Department is currently investigating the death of an alleged bank robber on the northwest side of South Bend.

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

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

Ogden Dunes police and transit officers are seeking the public's help in finding a man who broke into a truck at the South Shore station there Tuesday along with four accomplices.

Cruising southbound on the Willowcreek Road bypass, a car zooms past Assistant Police Chief Larry Jolley.

What now is a slab of concrete along Central Avenue will, by mid-December, become a community health center service for area residents.

One of the lowest performing school districts in the state has the highest average teacher salary in Northwest Indiana, a Times computer analysis shows.

A fast food restaurant was evacuated and seven people were treated for injuries suffered in a suspected lunchtime natural gas leak.

Douglas E. Smith -- the man who calls himself "Otis the town drunk" -- was arrested Saturday on a public intoxication charge.

"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 ...

There is no bond. * Anderson police arrested Julie A. Filippini, 40, of the 6500 block of Robbins Road in Portage, at 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 2300 block of East 64th Street on suspicion of battery, a Class A ...

A 14-year-old boy from Chicago Heights , Ill., was missing and feared drowned Sunday at the Dunes National Lakeshore at Kemil Beach in Northwest Indiana.

Four out of five women who suffer from mild bladder control problems are too embarrassed to talk to their peers about the sensitive topic.

International Brotherhood of Ironworkers Local 395-Hammond broke ground on Thursday on a new union hall at the AmeriPlex at the Port development in Portage.

A consultant overseeing Porter County's corridor plan said initial feedback from citizens and community leaders shows support for preserving the rural character and natural features along the county's major ...

Last week, I attended the Taltree Arboretum Gardens and Arboretum fund-raiser. What a wonderful night.

County assessors will take over from their township counterparts this week in much of Northwest Indiana as a law phasing out township assessors across the state takes effect.

The Porter County Assessor's Office has hired all but three of the county's elected township assessors facing the elimination of their duties under a new state law.

Can someone please explain why Cumberland Crossing in Valpo looks like a ghost town and the YMCA looks like a barn raising? What the heck is going on? Nobody's worked there in more than a month.