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Gary Mayor Eddie Melton, pictured on Monday, March 10, 2025, criticized proposed changes to the makeup of the Gary Airport Board. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

City leaders, state legislators react to House budget bill shifting appointments for Gary Airport Board

March 15, 2025 at 12:12 p.m.

City officials are shocked by language in the state budget bill that would shift appointment authority for the Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority while state legislators avoid questions on who put...

Tracie Martin, co-founder of NWI Takes Action, led a protest against the Trump Administration's proposed Veterans Affairs cuts in Highland March 14, 2025. (Alexandra Kukulka/Post-Tribune)

Dozens gather in Highland to protest Veterans Affairs cuts: ‘Our vets deserve better’

March 15, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

“Our vets deserve better, no DOGE coward cuts,” Tracie Martin, co-founder of NWI Takes Action, chanted Friday along the Highway of Flags memorial in Highland.

The Indiana State Capitol in Indianapolis on Jan. 4, 2022. (Michael Gard/Post-Tribune)

House Ways and Means Committee chairman proposes his property tax plan for Indiana

March 13, 2025 at 2:10 p.m.

State Rep. Jeffrey Thompson, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, presented the committee with his proposed property tax plan Wednesday.

The Indiana Statehouse appears on May 5, 2017, in Indianapolis. (Michael Conroy/AP)

Partisan school board election bill amended, passed out of Indiana House committee

March 12, 2025 at 3:03 p.m.

A Senate bill that would make school board races partisan was amended before passing out of the House Elections and Apportionment Committee Wednesday.

The proposed Good for Youth Farm project will move from the lot near the Juvenile Justice Center on 93rd Avenue to the land behind the Lake County Parks and Recreation office near Deep River Waterpark. (Rendering courtesy of the Lake County Council)

Lake County Good for Youth Farm project will now be built near Deep River Waterpark

March 11, 2025 at 3:29 p.m.

The proposed Good for Youth Farm project will move from the lot near the Juvenile Justice Center on 93rd Avenue to the land behind the Lake County Parks and Recreation...

Visitors listen during a standing-room-only town hall meeting with State Rep. Mike Andrade, D-Munster, and State Senators Lonnie Randolph, D-East Chicago, and Dan Dernulc, R-Highland, in Highland on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Residents pack Highland town hall to ask about property taxes, public schools and healthcare bills

March 10, 2025 at 12:34 p.m.

Property taxes, public schools, and healthcare were among the topics constituents questioned three area legislators about during a packed town hall meeting Saturday in Highland.

Gary Mayor Eddie Melton addresses the audience at a special community meeting to learn about the city's proposal to be the site of the proposed Lake County Convention Center at Hard Rock Casino on Thursday, March 6, 2025 (John Smierciak / Post-Tribune)

Gary, Hobart officials make their pitches to lure Lake County Convention Center

March 7, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

Two Lake County communities made moves Thursday night to put themselves in the driver's seat in luring the proposed Lake County Convention Center. Hundreds of residents gathered at St. Timothy...

Former U.S. Sen. and current Indiana Gov. Mike Braun speaks during a Republican Indiana gubernatorial candidate forum in Carmel, Ind., Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

Braun signals his displeasure with property tax bill as House moves to change language

March 6, 2025 at 2:21 p.m.

Governor Mike Braun won’t sign a property tax bill after the Senate passed an amended bill, his director of legislative affairs Jason Johnson told the House Ways and Means Committee...

School City of Hammond board listen during the comment period of a Hammond School Board meeting on January 9, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/Post-Tribune)

Dozens of witnesses testify on Indiana partisan school board bill

March 5, 2025 at 3:15 p.m.

Senate Bill 287, authored by Sen. Gary Byrne, R-Byrneville, Sen. Chris Garten, R-Charlestown, and Sen. Blake Doriot, R-Goshen, would change the school board election process to that of other elections,...

St. Josaphat Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church congregation member Olga Schulz expresses worry for family members still in Ukraine on Friday, February 25, 2022. (Kyle Telechan for the Post-Tribune)

‘People did not want that war’: Ukrainians in Northwest Indiana react to latest developments

March 4, 2025 at 3:48 p.m.

Northwest Indiana Ukrainians feel disappointed and betrayed by U.S. leaders’ actions against Ukrainian leaders as talks and deals, including aid for Ukraine, have fallen apart in recent days.

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