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Elected officials took the first step this week in establishing two ARP Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The funds have to be established bef ...

A man who lost an eye after being struck by a tear gas canister during downtown protests in May has identified the police officer whom he says fired i ...

The deadly global pandemic has easily and understandably overshadowed the typical challenges facing Indiana communities. While so much of the attention of elected officials for more than a year has rightly been on battling COVID-19, a new report makes clear that other problems remain and need to be addressed. The coronavirus shifted the focus of towns, cities and counties, but it left in place – and sometimes made worse – issues such as drug use and housing affordability that have plagued them for years. A survey released this week from the Indiana University Advisory Commission on Interg...

Some of the details sound great. A $100 million project expected to create 1,000 permanent, full-time jobs. Annual payroll of about $30 million. Tangential economic benefits for northeast Indiana totaling at least tens of millions of dollars, maybe more. Problem is, those aren't all the details. And Project Mastodon – the murky moniker assigned to the project by developers and Fort Wayne officials – is looking for tax breaks worth more than $16 million to secure its place in the city. “There's no bad news here,” Nancy Townsend, director of the city's community development department, ...

Light could be shed next week on a mysterious proposal for a mammoth-sized – or maybe mastodon-sized – industrial building near the outskirts of Fort Wayne.