The lawsuit was the latest in a string of attempts to eliminate the vehicle emissions testing mandate that applies to Northwest Indiana and nowhere else in the state.
The Lake County Council is taking advantage of a new state law authorizing the reallocation of funds within the recorder s office to support record-keeping upgrades.
State Sen. Dan Dernulc, R-Highland, and state Sen. Rick Niemeyer, R-Lowell, on Wednesday endorsed Lt. Gov Suzanne Crouch for governor over her intraparty rivals.
When Indiana University Northwest graduate student Victoria Travis first joined a research project looking into the approximate 7,000 properties that churn through Lake County’s commissioners’ and treasurer’s delinquent property tax sale processes, she could not expect where that work might lead.
A bill outlining plans for the development of a Lake County Convention Center while creating a means to eliminate blight in Gary and revitalize the city’s downtown Metro transportation hub is heading to the governor’s desk.