Schneider News

The town of Schneider will conduct a public hearing Wednesday on the proposed annexation of property intended for the location of a $280 million bioethanol plant.

A financial report on the proposed bioethanol plant in Schneider says "the projected profitability of GP leaves substantial room for error." But county officials say the they aren't concerned by the report.

Budget cuts have forced the elimination of seven positions in the Lake County public defender's office.

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., was on the radio Thursday and Friday commenting on the case of two Hammond teens charged with felony murder after a representative of the Lake County Prosecutor's Office informed him of a gag order in the case.

Properly controlled and monitored, a $285 million garbage-to-ethanol plant planned for the town of Schneider, Ind.

The small town of Schneider, Indiana is hoping to get a boost from an energy plant that will try to convert garbage to ethanol.

Schneider -- A company has picked a rural site in Northwest Indiana for its $285 million plant that would turn trash into ethanol.

A proposed $285 million garbage-to-ethanol plant likely won't be built in Lowell, one town official said, but a decision exactly where it would go could come soon.

I'll confess: I had to actively learn to appreciate what's going on in the jazz scene today.

A garbage-to-ethanol plant plans to apply for a state waste handling permit within 45 days in one of three south Lake County municipalities, the company's vice president said Monday.

A northwest Indiana man whose burning of an abandoned office building was discovered by an accelerant-sniffing police dog was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday.