Porter News

A strong cold front moved through the Chicago metro area Friday late morning. Behind the front a general area of light snow fell.

Coming soon to the big, big screen: U.S. 12, Lakefront Drive in Beverly Shores, and Lincolnway, part of the historic Lincoln Highway, as it goes through downtown Valparaiso.

A Porter resident who served jail time more than 10 years ago-after pleading guilty to charges of child neglect and operating while intoxicated in connection with an accident which took the life of her 6-year-old daughter-was arrested Thursday on charges of OWI, resisting law enforcement, disorderly conduct, and possession of a legend drug, the ... (more)

The Porter County Council reached out to health insurance experts on Tuesday to consider potential changes to the county's employee insurance plan.

Folks in Porter and Lake county are breathing cleaner air than they have in years, both counties have now officially reached attainment status, but motorists will still be required to have their vehicles emission-tested. On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its formal recognition that the air quality in Lake and Porter ... (more)

On Tuesday, Amtrak, in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Transportation, announced it had received federal approval to increase the maximum speed of Amtrak trains traveling through the region to 110 miles per hour.

In case you missed the Town of Porter's sesquicentennial celebration four years ago, you have the chance to catch it in a returning exhibit at the Westchester Township Brown Mansion History Museum now through Feb.

The sun was shining on that March day in 2007. It was 38 degrees when I left Lafayette to drive to Chesterton, Ind.

With those words outgoing town marshal Jerry Price pinned his chief's badge on Craig Barnes' uniform following his unanimous appointment by the Burns Harbor Town Council to lead the department.

A benefit fundraiser will be held on Saturday, Feb. 25 for Burns Harbor resident Nicole Hipp, who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in July, 2011.

State Rep. Ed Soliday, R-Valparaiso, said he is '80 percent confident' a legislation piece will pass out of the General Assembly to provide the additional funding Indiana counties need to run their 911 dispatching centers or Public Safety Answering Points .

Porter's Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Nalli recently announced that the construction of the new 266-bed Porter hospital at the corner of Ind.

No one was injured Monday in a fire which caused significant damage to several condominium units in the 2100 block of Dogwood Lane in the Westchester Village on the Green complex off 23rd Street, the Chesterton Fire Department said.

Porter firefighters doused a car fire on Friday, during the height of the snow storm, at NIPSCO's Bailly Generating Station.

On Jan. 13, Matthew A. Parks, 29, was sentenced to four years in the Porter County Jail, with all but one of those years suspended and to be served on formal probation.

A family of four was rescued from their burning vehicle on Saturday by Patriot Guard Riders as they were escorting the body of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan, the Porter County Sheriff's Police said.

A mother and her 6-year-old daughter were seriously injured in a fiery two-car crash Saturday morning on westbound U.S. 30 east of County Road 325E in Washington Township.