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Attendees of the South Shore Summer Learning Conference discuss classroom discipline strategies recently. More than 200 teachers from Lake and Porter Counties attended. (Michelle L. Quinn/Post-Tribune)

Learning conference focuses on effective technology use in classrooms

June 22, 2026 at 9:13 a.m.

Teachers instead should be "crystal clear" on how they want their students to use the technology they're given, said author Matt Miller during the South Shore Summer Learning Conference at...

Gary resident Lin Kaatz Chary speaks in favor of Medicare for All during the "Speak Out" event on Medicaid, SNAP and healthcare cuts hosted by U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan on Thursday, June 18, 2026. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Constituents come out to question U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan about healthcare cuts

June 20, 2026 at 3:13 p.m.

Northwest Indiana constituents want District 1 U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan to "get a little spunk in his step" when it comes to healthcare.

Members of the St. Joseph the Worker mariachi band perform during a service at Holy Angels Cathedral in Gary to mark the closure of a number of parishes in the diocese on Sunday, June 14, 2026. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Diocese addresses merging of Gary’s parishes at Sunday service

June 15, 2026 at 2:07 p.m.

The Diocese of Gary could have issued an edict to its Gary parishioners on how the city’s church configuration was going to look now that its consolidation is complete.

John Pisowicz, of Crown Point, is stretchered to the hazmat tent after being pulled from a simulated aircraft accident during the triennial full-scale emergency preparedness exercise at the Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary, Indiana, Saturday, June 13, 2026. More than 50 volunteers from Indiana and Illinois helped provide victims of a simulated aircraft accident during the exercise. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

First responders, airport personnel, volunteers help with disaster drill at Gary airport

June 14, 2026 at 1:33 p.m.

A disaster exercise held at the Gary/Chicago International Airport saw several fewer emergency management departments than were scheduled.

Christine Clarahan, front, peruses the meeting agenda after addressing the crowd during the Munster Plan Commission meeting Tuesday, June 9, 2026. The Plan Commission voted unanimously to defer discussion on a proposed data center for the former Lansing Country Club to July 14. (Michelle L. Quinn/for the Post-Tribune)

Munster postpones discussion on data center proposal for country club property

June 11, 2026 at 1:18 p.m.

Conversations on a proposed data center for Munster’s portion of the Lansing Country Club property have been kicked into next month.

Munster Town Hall (Christin Nance Lazerus/Post-Tribune)

Munster mulling data center exception at former Lansing Country Club

June 7, 2026 at 6:27 p.m.

Munster Town Council members aren’t thinking about putting a data center within its limits right now, but they would like to reserve the right to change their minds.

Chris Brown, with the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District, sprays larvae-killing granules into standing water in Dixmoor in 2018. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Munster pauses mosquito spraying due to health, ecosystem concerns

June 5, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.

Munster officials announced Thursday on social media that it’s “suspending mosquito spraying at this time” after two residents presented the issue at the June 1 Town Council meeting, though a...

The Dean and Barbara White Community Center in Merrillville opened on Monday, March 1, 2021. (Michael Gard/Post-Tribune)

Merrillville eyeing sale of White Center to Crossroads YMCA

June 4, 2026 at 3:54 p.m.

Merrillville's six-year-old community center could join the Crossroads YMCA family as early as next spring if the Town Council approves the deal.

Attorney Richard Anderson points to a map of a proposed data center at Colorado Street and Harms Road during an informational meeting May 19 at the Dean and Barbara White Community Center in Merrillville. Tuesday, town officials approved a one-year moratorium on data centers. (Michelle L. Quinn/Post-Tribune)

Merrillville officials place one-year moratorium on data centers

May 27, 2026 at 2:52 p.m.

Any data centers the town of Merrillville would like to court will have to wait a year for an invitation, town leaders have decided. After hosting the first of two...

Merrillville explores data center ballot question amid revenue squeeze

May 24, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.

Merrillville may put a ballot question on data centers to its voters in November, but even if they can't, the council expects to vote on at least one proposal by...

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