Six Hoosier university systems have volunteered to reduce more than 400 degree programs statewide, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced Monday.

There were glimmers of possibility Tuesday that Porter County could mend its riff with Chesterton and Porter following an officer–involved shooting.

Northwest Indiana fireworks stores do boffo business around the Fourth of July as laws bar the sale of them in Illinois. The parking lot at Krazy Kaplans in Hammond was filled with Illinois license plates on Tuesday.

Here’s our guide to July 4 fireworks displays in the Chicago area, with shows from almost a hundred communities.

Hawkins is the father of 21-year-old Bryon Towns, one of five people who died in a Gary crash last Wednesday. Their SUV collided with a South Shore Line train after it went around the crossing gates at the intersection of U.S. 20 and Utah Street on the north side of Gary’s Aetna neighborhood.

Valparaiso Parks entered a partnership with Sports Facilities Companies for the redevelopment of the former McGill factory site.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders the ban on asbestos, an Indiana man suffering from asbestosis recovers from Loyola Medicine’s life-saving double lung transplant.

Adam Mildred, current deputy prosecuting attorney in Allen County, was nominated to serve as the new U.S. Attorney for Indiana’s Northern District.

Gary resident Rashad Thompson, 38, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 years in a carjacker’s killing.

An 11-year-old girl is safe after a LaPorte man who was “just trying to get (expletive) home” Friday afternoon stole her mother’s car while she was in it.