Porter News

An autopsy was scheduled late this morning on the Texas man who Valparaiso Police say fatally shot himself on Friday after holding hostages at a local real estate office.

The Porter Town Council approved a contract Tuesday that will remove sidewalk tripping hazards in both the downtown and Porter Cove subdivision.

Town staff and consultants are studying alternate ways to connect Porter to the planned Dunes Kankakee Trail after its Redevelopment Commission on Tuesday voted not to accept a $72,000 grant and not to purchase land for the trail along the Munson Ditch easement.

A Chesterton woman who police said cut a child's wrists, then her own, last summer at Indiana Dunes State Park has agreed to plead guilty but mentally ill to a charge of battery with a deadly weapon.

The Porter Plan Commission set a special June 6 public hearing on the rezoning of certain land parcels near Waverly Road and U.S. 20, but there's already disagreement what the proposed zoning should be.

The heavy lifting's been done and now it's just a matter of finalizing some details and getting good cost estimates.

No one's abandoning connecting Porter's hike/bike trail system to the Porter County Visitor Center and the east side of Indiana 49, but the general consensus Monday was that using the Munson Ditch easement to do it probably isn't the best way.

Work is finishing up on track lines between Kalamazoo and Porter, Indiana that will allow trains to travel 110 miles-per-hour. "There are a few sections that still have 40 mile-per-hour slowdowns, but for the most part the line is back up to speed," said MDOT spokeswoman Janet Foran.

Paperwork has been filed with the Town of Porter seeking zoning approval to re-open shuttered Splash Down Dunes, perhaps even this year.

PORTER, Ind. - The National Park Service is recommending a white-tail deer management plan for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore that includes sharpshooting and capture and euthanasia.

In a political flier mailed this week by the Committee to Elect Evans Commissioner, the committee refers to Evans' primary election opponent Jim Biggs as 'A Tax and Spend Liberal Porter County Can't Afford.' * The flier says 'He even thought about creating a NEW 'Public Safety Tax' in the middle of a recession.' The claim footnotes an article ... (more)