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The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation is giving $150 million to the Big Shoulders Fund over the next 10 years to funnel into academic and infrastructure improvements at 20 Catholic schools in the four-county Diocese of Gary.
The state has relaxed some guidelines on a new literacy training requirement after a teacher outcry against the new state mandate.
Portions of north central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana are expected to experience patchy fog throughout Friday while further south along the Kankakee River, flooding has spurred evacuations, officials said. The fog Friday is expected to continue at times becoming dense. It’s expected to linger into Saturday, officials said. Areas along the Kankakee River are faced with runoff ...
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is monitoring the situation at BP’s refinery in Whiting after two separate tank leaks spread a chemical odor across nearby communities in Indiana and Illinois, the agency told the Post-Tribune on Thursday. On the afternoon of Jan. 18, a storage tank at the refinery’s tank field began leaking, according to a company spokesperson. The leak was ...
Indiana Democrats and some Republicans will once again seek to pass legislation legalizing marijuana during the 2024 legislative session, which begins Monday. Past attempts at liberalizing Indiana’s marijuana laws have proved fruitless. During last year’s legislative session, more than a dozen bills that would have loosened restrictions on the drug to varying degrees — from legalizing adult ...