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Election complaint spotlights need for training on who is authorized to handle machines

May 6, 2024 at 12:47 p.m.

The Lake County Election Board Saturday said they will use complaints filed against a Dyer man serving as a deputy election commissioner in November stemming from his actions on Election...

Museum at Lassen's Resort executive director Julie Zasada welcomes visitors from the porch of the building during a celebration of the facility's 2024 season opening in Cedar Lake on May 3, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Museum at Lassen’s Resort gets spruced up for summer kickoff

May 5, 2024 at 12:08 p.m.

The setting sun basked Lassen’s Resort in Cedar Lake in a warm glow Friday as the Cedar Lake Historical Association marked the 103rd anniversary of the grand opening of the...

Lake County Election Board member and Clerk Mike Brown and Michelle Fajman, election board director, wear the new 2024 Election lapel pins at Saturday's meeting. (Carrie Napoleon/Post-Tribune)

Election workers get official pins for Tuesday’s primary

May 5, 2024 at 11:35 a.m.

The approximately 2,000 members of Lake County’s election team received a bipartisan thank you for their efforts in the form of official lapel pins for the 2024 election in advance...

Gary firefighter denies accusations of City Hall vandalism

May 3, 2024 at 2:19 p.m.

A Gary firefighter who was arrested April 26 following a confrontation with police as they worked to impound his car said he does not know why police would think his...

Court documents: Gary firefighter facing misdemeanor charges

April 30, 2024 at 5:28 p.m.

A Gary firefighter was charged with three misdemeanor counts stemming from a Friday police interaction at his residence.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer McCormick addresses the audience during a town hall on reproductive rights at the Lake County Library on April 29, 2024. (John Smierciak/Post-Tribune)

Reproductive rights in focus at gubernatorial town hall

April 30, 2024 at 3:35 p.m.

A capacity crowd filled the meeting room at the Merrillville Public Library Monday to hear Indiana’s gubernatorial candidates Democrat Jennifer McCormick and Republican Jamie Reitenour share their views on reproductive...

Four Dems, two GOP vying for 3rd District Lake Commissioners’ seat

April 30, 2024 at 12:02 p.m.

Lake County’s Democrats and Republicans have a choice to make in May when they look to seat a candidate for the 3rd District Commissioners seat held by incumbent Micheal Repay,...

Satellite Clerk Rolanda Shipp (center) gives instructions to voter Joan Simnick of Crown Point as the first voters showed up at the Government Center in Crown Point for early voting in this October 2022 file photo. (John Smierciak/Post Tribune)

Lake County seeing an increase in early voting turnout

April 28, 2024 at 2:09 p.m.

Voter turnout so far appears to be a little above average 12 days into early voting at Lake County’s 11 vote centers, according to election officials. “We always like to...

Indiana University Northwest School of Nursing students, from left, Jackson Mielczarek, Marrin Brandt, and Dylan Rouhselang attempt to diagnose irregularities in a simulated patient as classmates and visitors watch from the audience during the annual SIM Wars competition on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Nursing students in teams use simulators to compete in real-world scenarios

April 25, 2024 at 3:25 p.m.

Students in scrubs surrounded the bed of a “patient” Thursday at Indiana University Northwest as they took vitals, asked questions and reviewed the patient chart to remedy the patient’s complaints.

Lake County Prosecutor Bernie Carter (left) and Gary City Councilman Mark Spencer (right) console Kandice Cole (center) after she talked about son, Eric Cole, 4, during the debut of three short gun safety lock videos produced by, and in partnership with, Spencer, who is director of the West Side Theatre Guild. The videos are both instructional and emotional. The Lake County Prosecutor’s Office hosted the press conference at Gary City Hall/Council Chambers on April 22, 2024. (John Smierciak/for the Post-Tribune)

Gary gun safety campaign spotlights a mother’s heartache

April 22, 2024 at 3:47 p.m.

Kandice Cole of Wheatfield choked up Monday as she recalled the fateful day almost seven years ago when her young son Eric Cole was killed after gaining access to an...

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