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Credit Google Maps The northern Indiana utility NIPSCO has announced it will shut down half of it’s R.M. Schahfer coal plant in Wheatfield by the end of this year. That’s about two years earlier than when the whole plant is expected to shut down in 2023. Nick Meyer is the vice president of state communications for NiSource — NIPSCO’s parent company. He said the reason behind closing half of Schahfer early is the same reason the utility decided to shutter all of its coal plants and move to mostly renewable sources by 2028. “We just continue to see, from an economic standpoint, a sign...

Photographer Nick Meyer talks to us about his new book The Local, a personal reckoning with the realities of his hometown in Western Massachusetts.

Ash from Indiana's coal-burning power plants is contaminating groundwater across the state, rendering it unsafe to drink. But unlike some other states, Indiana is not requiring utility companies to remove the toxic ash from leaky pits. Indiana has more than 80 pits holding the cancer-causing coal byproduct. That's more than any other state in America. The vast majority of them are unlined, in contact with groundwater and at risk of being washed into rivers or streams because they sit in floodplains. They've already rendered the groundwater around 14 of 15 power plants across the state no l...

She spent nearly 7 years in the city's legal department ROCKFORD — Lafakeria Vaughn, an assistant city attorney for the city of Rockford, has been appointed the new Civil Bureau chief for the Winnebago County State's Attorney's Office. State’s Attorney J. Hanley made the announcement Thursday. Vaughn worked for nearly seven years as an attorney in the city's legal department, where she prosecuted city ordinance violations, litigated small claims cases, foreclosure petitions, property tax appeals as well as advised the Rockford City Council Code and Regulation Committee, Rockford City C...

Matthew Murphy The original cast will take part in the live production to be produced and financed by eOne as Broadway remains dark amid the pandemic. Entertainment One is set to produce and finance a live filming of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Come From Away. As New York City's theater district remains dark amid the pandemic, the Broadway cast will reprise their roles in the live capture set for May 2021, ahead of a planned September 2021 release. Come From Away tells the true story of 7,000 passengers stranded after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a small town in Newfoundland, w...