Valparaiso News

As the background buzz of chain saws slowly subsided, most of Porter County had almost recovered from Monday night's storms.

Pat Lukasik feels bad for residents in the region who are waking up to find the catalytic converters stolen from the undersides of their vehicles.

Despite a positive outlook for next year's finances, the mayor says city officials still plan a lean budget to prepare for 2010.

A Jackson Township resident has been charged after a compact disc which police said contained images of child pornography was found at his former residence in the Spring Valley Shelter in Valparaiso, the Porter ...

A year after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal crash, Valparaiso resident Aaron Luchene was back behind bars Friday on accusations he violated his probation by using cocaine.

Von Tobel Lumber Co. has filed a lawsuit seeking foreclosure on a massive home being built by a local developer in the Pepper Creek subdivision.

A man who works at a farm southeast of Valparaiso called police Thursday afternoon to report that someone killed the farm's onion crop.

Elizabeth West apologized Friday for stealing medications while working as a nurse at the Porter Valparaiso Hospital Campus.

The woman involved in a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on Ind. 249 Wednesday night has been released from the hospital.

Robert Barthel's reunion with his son last week was bittersweet. The Portage man traveled to Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego to visit his son, U.S. Army Sgt.

An Illinois man apparently drowned while swimming at a nudist colony just west of Valparaiso, Indiana.

An Illinois man apparently drowned while swimming at a nudist colony just west of Valparaiso, Indiana.

An Illinois man apparently drowned while swimming at a nudist colony just west of Valparaiso, Indiana.

An Illinois man apparently drowned while swimming at a nudist colony just west of Valparaiso, Indiana.

A man visiting an Indiana nudist colony drowned Sunday despite attempts by a fellow guest to pull him from the water, police said.

A suspect shot to death following a bank robbery in South Bend could be the same man who committed a series of unsolved robberies during the past several months in Valparaiso and Chesterton, police said.

Valparaiso police have arrested a man who they say left child pornography behind when he moved out of a Valparaiso homeless shelter and got his own home in Portage.

A suspect shot to death following a bank robbery in South Bend could be the same man who committed a series of unsolved robberies during the past several months in Valparaiso and Chesterton, police said.

Mark Abbett, of A&M Farm Center, returns year after year to the Porter County Celebration Sale at the Porter County Fair because he knows supporting 4-H is critical to the community.

Heer Patel giggles with glee as she points her water gun at a nearby camp counselor and lets rip a short succession of squirts.