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Lake County residents looking for something different to do over the Thanksgiving holiday might want to try their hand at drawing new district boundaries for the county council and county

Martha "Marty" Wheeler, who has devoted the past several decades to saving and preserving the courthouse, was honored Thursday as a Sagamore of the Wabash.

Gov. Eric Holcomb led a pandemic-delayed celebration Tuesday as he reenacted signing his name to a new state law aimed at ensuring all Northwest Indiana children with serious medical conditions can continue being treated at Chicago childrens hospitals. The Republican chief executive was surrounded in his Statehouse office by Northwest Indiana childrens health advocates, Chicago hospital leaders and Region lawmakers as he ceremonially signed House Enrolled Act 1305. The new law, which Holcomb of...

Attorney General Todd Rokita says IU cannot require students, faculty or staff to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination status as a condition of attending or working at the school.

Republican lawmakers signed onto a letter to Gov. Eric Holcomb, asking him to stop Indiana University from requiring COVID-19 vaccines.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Rep. Denny Zent of Angola was one of 19 who signed a letter penned by Seymour Rep. Jim Lucas, demanding Gov. Eric Holcomb intervene in Indiana University’s decision to require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall. A letter dated Tuesday to Holcomb calls on him to prohibit any state university from mandating vaccines that don’t have full U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. The letter follows IU’s announcement on Friday that COVID-19 vaccinations will be r...

Local health officers across the Hoosier State have lost their independent authority to impose emergency disease prevention measures on individuals and businesses that are more stringent than state rules. On Monday, the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate voted 36-10, and the Republican-controlled House 59-30, to put Senate Enrolled Act 5 into effect immediately, notwithstanding Republican Gov. Eric Holcombs May 4 veto of the proposal. The new law mandates the local governing body overseeing a...

“I’ll see you in heaven.” It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she cont...

Wetlands safeguards would be win Larry Clemens Indianas General Assembly recently illustrated whats become an unfortunate and all-too-frequent political maxim: When money talks, good public policy walks. In this case the money, about $390,000 spread across the General Assembly since 2017, according to the Indianapolis Star, comes from the Indiana Builders Association. The result is Senate Bill 389, and it is bad public policy. I hope Gov. Eric Holcomb will veto the bill. Its first, horrible ite...