Beverly Shores News

The first annual Duneland community fireworks exhibition would appear to have been, by anyone's standards, a marvelous success.

Dear Quickly pet owners: I took my two puggles to Kemil Beach in Beverly Shores.

Restaurante don Quijote recently conducted its annual wine-tasting fundraiser, which this year benefited the Porter County Family Counseling Center, a not-for-profit agency that provides counseling to individuals and families in Porter County.

As they keep up the pressure on getting this year's property tax bills out, Porter County Council members heard a generally positive update Thursday.

THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM NORTHEAST KANKAKEE COUNTY THROUGH MUCH OF LAKE COUNTY INDIANA AND INTO NORTHERN PORTER COUNTY INDIANA.

Water continues to flood basements in shoreline communities in Northwest Indiana.

People complaining about dealers doing life are probably doing drugs themselves.

Supporters of the proposed Discovery Charter School on Thursday praised the new school as a way to give parents a choice in education, as a unique outdoor learning experience, and as a healthy dose of competition for the public schools.

Many Chicagoans will be driving to Indiana or Michigan for a holiday weekend getaway.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST...WITH RAIN TAPERING OFF FROM WEST TO EAST BETWEEN 1 AM AND 3 AM CDT.

Most works of art are displayed behind glass or hung in frames, not to be handled.

With $2.9 million less coming to northwest Indiana than originally thought, local projects trying to receive federal stimulus highway money were trimmed across-the-board by 14.1 percent.

All events are open to the public and are free unless otherwise noted. May 1-3 8 a.m., Midwest Birding Expedition with Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center This year's annual expedition will head for birding hotspots along the Indiana Dunes.

Several regional cities and towns including four from Porter County have shown preliminary interest in banding together to hire a $60,000 consultant to identify, pursue and position them to receive federal funding for local projects.

The organizers of a 100-mile bike ride in June hope the event will spotlight gaps remaining in trails that link Northwest Indiana and Northeast Illinois.

Porter County officials will meet with the state on Thursday to discuss a number of issues involving the county's delayed property tax billing, foremost of which will be the potential that the 2009 tax bills will go out even later than already anticipated due to delays in neighboring LaPorte County.

The fire which destroyed a picnic pavilion early Friday morning on the grounds of Fairhaven Independent Baptist Church at 86 E. Oakhill Road in Westchester Township appears to have been intentionally set.

John Jarka of the CFD told the Chesterton Tribune early this morning. Jarka described the shelter as a large and elaborate structure, around 30' x 50' in size and fully roofed, with a concrete floor and limestone fireplace, an equipped kitchen area, and a full wall and three partial walls, located on the south boundary of the property near the ...

The deadline for Porter County property owners to appeal their tax bills was Monday.

A Porter County judge pro tem has dismissed the lawsuit brought by the Liberty Landowners Association against the rezoning for the new Porter hospital in Liberty Township, saying that the citizens group lacks standing to sue because it doesn't own property adjacent to the hospital site.