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Vice President Kamala Harris embraces President Joe Biden after a speech on healthcare in Raleigh, N.C., March. 26, 2024. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, July 21, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election. (Matt Kelley/AP)

Experts, politicians talk state of play after Biden drops out, Harris takes his place

July 23, 2024 at 11:59 a.m.

Marjorie Hershey, professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University, said she was driving home from her grandson’s baseball tournament when she heard on the radio that President Joe Biden...

President Joe Biden, right, walks with Vice President Kamala Harris after speaking on updated guidance on face mask mandates and COVID-19 response, in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 13, 2021, in Washington. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, July 21, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election. (Evan Vucci/AP)

NWI Dems react to Biden’s exit from presidential race

July 22, 2024 at 12:35 a.m.

The surprise announcement that President Joe Biden would not seek re-election provided a look at both the past and future of the Democratic Party for Northwest Indiana politicos.

The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority agreed to assist the Town of Munster with $10,000 going toward a feasibility study on the town purchasing and operating the Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. (Christin Nance Lazerus/Post-Tribune)

SSCVA to assist Munster with funds for CVPA feasibility study

July 19, 2024 at 8:44 p.m.

If the Town of Munster decides to go ahead with a feasibility study to determine whether purchasing the Center for Visual and Performing Arts is something it should do, the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority...

A Lake County Sheriff's Department helicopter fuselage, to be used in future training exercises, sits atop a tower constructed by local union workers at Griffith Airport on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Sheriff unveils fuselage repurposed as a training tower at Griffith/Merrillville airport

July 19, 2024 at 4:41 p.m.

A mounted helicopter fuselage on the east side of the Griffith-Merrillville Airport is set to become the training backbone of the Lake County Sheriff’s Aviation Unit, Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr....

Speros Batistatos, former head of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau, is shown in his backyard of his St. John home on Saturday, July 16, 2022. (John Smierciak/Post Tribune)

Former SSCVA chief says he followed sick time guidelines

July 18, 2024 at 12:32 p.m.

The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority’s counterclaims against former President and CEO Speros Batistatos stem from that body’s own failure to read the documents it has had all along,...

Catch Table and Tap owner Jason Evans speaks with a customer in his Merrillville restaurant on Friday. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Hammond preps for food and beverage tax while Merrillville sees funds rolling in

July 14, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Jason Evans, the owner of Catch Table and Tap, said one of his regular customers just noticed Friday that he has been paying a Merrillville Food and Beverage Tax that...

Local officials and business owners gather as the ribbon is cut during a celebration at Harvest Square Strip Mall in Gary on Tuesday. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Church parishioners fund new Gary strip mall: ‘We did this with no grants’

July 9, 2024 at 3:55 p.m.

A newly completed strip mall in Gary’s Miller section encapsulates what it means to be both a community business and a business built by a community.

Hammond Superintendent Scott Miller, pictured in July 2021, has left the district to take a job as Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott's chief of staff. (John Smierciak for the Post-Tribune)

Hammond superintendent takes new post as Mayor McDermott’s chief of staff

July 3, 2024 at 3:58 p.m.

The beleaguered School City of Hammond Superintendent Scott Miller is leaving the district to join the city as Mayor Tom McDermott’s Chief of Staff, the city and Miller announced Tuesday.

Enrique Abello, left, makes friends Mago Candanoza, center left; Luciano Labrabor, center right; and Angie Gibbons, right, laugh as they wait for the South Shore train to pick them up for the Chicago Pride Parade June 30. (Michelle L. Quinn/Post-Tribune)

All aboard the train to Pride

July 2, 2024 at 3:04 p.m.

Rainbows were visible all along the South Shore Line Sunday morning, from tutus and jewelry to a conductor's suspenders. The South Shore Line had extended trains in preparation for the...

Kiara Wade, of LaPorte, tempts her dog Freya with a treat as Shelley Gurevitz, left, and Jessica Cabiness, right, watching. The three were in front of the Center for Visual and Performing Arts protesting "shock jock" Shaun Thompson, the keynote speaker for a fundraiser the Munster Republican Central Committee held for U.S. District 1 Republican Congressional candidate Randy Niemeyer on June 29. (Michelle L. Quinn/Post-Tribune)

Republican fundraiser draws protestors in reaction to speaker’s anti-trans views

July 2, 2024 at 2:29 p.m.

Protestors in front of Munster's Center for Visual and Performing Arts Saturday night spoke out against radio host Shaun Thompson, who was the keynote speaker for a $100 a pop...

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