Oakland City News

The rules regulating the conversion of apartment buildings to condos come up before the Oakland City Council every so often, and inevitably generate considerable controversy.

Oakland Mayor Ronald V. Dellums owes the residents of this great city an explanation.

To build the next two sections of the road between Oakland City, Ind., and the Crane warfare center, the Indiana Department of Transportation needs to buy more than 250 parcels of land EVANSVILLE - Come Monday, nearly 50 appraisers will pay visits to Hoosiers who own land in the path of a new stretch of Interstate 69.

A new search warrant will allow police to dig beneath a Petersburg, Ind., garage in search of the remains of a man missing for more than a decade.

NEWS 25 learns authorities are searching the home of a Pike County man for possible "human remains." Through documents obtained by NEWS 25, a search warrant was issued for the home of 46-year-old Kerry Thomas on Sunday to look for human remains and DNA.

Jack J. Hurst, 74, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 at his home in Sandborn.

Editor's note: The Oakland City Auditor's report on mismangement in hiring and retention practices was released on Oct 22nd.

A Richland, Ind., cement truck driver escaped serious injury Monday morning when his vehicle was hit by a Norfolk Southern freight train west of Mount Carmel.

A study released this week by Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby has confirmed a long-held belief that a sure-fire way to get a job with the city of Oakland is to have an inside connection.

Gov. Mitch Daniels has decided to speed up construction of the first portion of I-69 from Evansville to Crane by 2013 The governor said speeding up construction will save the state money because construction material prices have slipped during the economic downturn BOONVILLE, Ind.

Oak Knoll, once a leading hospital for casualties of the Korean and Vietnam wars, now resembles a war zone itself.

An 18-year-old Petersburg woman has been sentenced in a Oakland City robbery. Candace M. Crow, 18, was sentenced four years in prison following her admission to robbing the Oakland City Tobacco Road Food Mart earlier this year.

The class is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library in Oakland City.

Maine same-sex marriage measure: Prop. 8 rerun Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer Maine is the latest battleground for same-sex marriage, with voters deciding next month whether to approve a measure overturning their state Legislature's decision in May to legalize such marriages.

In an unexpected reversal, the Oakland City Council has approved the BART connector to the Oakland airport, making it easier for Bay Area residents to catch their flights come 2013.

Transit advocates, community groups, and faith-based environmental justice organizations made another plea to Oakland and regional policy makers to kill the half a billion dollar Oakland Airport Connector with a resolution sponsored by Oakland City Council members Nancy Nadel and Rebecca Kaplan at their monthly meeting last night.

A San Francisco Bay Area city will pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a burglary suspect who was left a paraplegic after being shot by a police officer.

Grand Lake Theater owner Alan Michaan exhorts the public to "Stop the Parking Madness!" Photo: DigiAnt During another raucous staging of political parking theater at last night's Oakland City Council meeting, where more than 90 speakers often shouted their opinions on the city's parking policy, the council reversed its position from July, ...

Following months of outcry, the Oakland City council has rolled back parking enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. KCBS' Margie Shafer Reports The controversial parking policy adopted in July extended parking peter enforcement from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and angered business owners like Allen Michaan who owns the Grand Lake Theatre.

Indiana wants to reduce the amount it spends on postsecondary education of prison inmates - and Ivy Tech Community College says it can get the job done less expensively.