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One COVID-19 death was reported in northeast Indiana on Monday from Sunday, recorded in Steuben County. Area hospitalizations were down to 120, and ICU

Credit FILE PHOTO: Rebecca Green / WBOI Whitley County’s 7-day positivity rate again went up on Monday, according to Tuesday’s update of the Indiana COVID-19 dashboard. With a positivity rate of 17.9 percent, the county remains one of Indiana’s most infectious for COVID-19, measured by cases per 100,000 residents and positivity rate. Attempts to speak with Whitley County health officials about the current rates have been unsuccessful. A dozen new deaths were reported in Allen County on Tu...

Indiana has already lost 85% of the wetlands it once had a century ago, many drained for farming and development. Now, environmentalists, engineers and residents are concerned that the few

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana closed out the week by hitting a benchmark it hasn’t accomplished in more than three months.

SHIPSHEWANA — A project designed to bring high-speed, fiber-optic internet to Shipshewana cleared its final hurdle Thursday night, and construction is expected to start as soon as the weather permits.

SHIPSHEWANA — When Carlos Jasso signed up to work as a reserve officer with the Shipshewana Police Department, he thought that unpaid reserve position would be a good stepping stone toward his goal of one day becoming an Indiana State Police trooper. Some 19 years later, Jasso is still in Shipshewana. Thursday night, Lieutenant Jasso stood before the town council as Shipshewana Town Marshal Tom Fitch presented Jasso with an award honoring his dedication to the small LaGrange County communi...

More than 88% of all high school seniors graduated and received their diplomas in the pandemic-affected 2019-20 school year, with local school districts seeing a mix of minor improvements or

AUBURN — The DeKalb County Health Department on Thursday reported 20 new cases of COVID-19 in DeKalb County residents.

While Fort Wayne Community Schools is now selling limited tickets to some school athletic events and Allen County is rolling back some COVID-19 gathering

LAGRANGE — The Michiana Event Center is preparing to host its first two expos of the year this weekend after being closed for two weeks. But the question that seems to still remain unanswered is how many people will be allowed inside the building this weekend? That question will be a little easier to answer come Monday after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced he’s updating his gathering size limitations, but it’s still unclear for events scheduled this weekend. The LaGrange Coun...