State and Local News

Marion Community Schools has hired Dr. Troy Friedersdorf as its Executive Director of Student and Family Services. The school created to the role to help meet the needs of students and families. In ...Read more

New trails cams were installed this week at trails in the Logansport area. Workers added cams at Huston Park, River Bluff Trail, Sims Connector Trail at Riverside Park’s Cole Bridge. The ten ...Read more

Farming conservation appears to be on the rise in Indiana. Farmers planted more than one million acres of cover crops in 2018, up 32,000 acres from last year, according to a recent survey by the ...Read more

Seventy-six students at Ivy Tech Community College have been inducted as the first members of a new chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) for the College’s Kokomo ...Read more

A new report says Indiana’s healthcare system is slowly improving, but still ranks 36th in the nation for overall quality care. The 2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance says ...Read more

Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) plans to build what would be its largest solar generation facility yet. The proposed project would be located in St. Joseph County and have a capacity of 20 ...Read more

Indiana’s Recycling Coalition says people in the state need to recycle more. The group says just 17percent of people in Indiana put recyclable plastic, glass, or newspaper in a recycling ...Read more

Thirty-six Girl Scouts and five adult leaders were rescued by the DNR on the Tippecanoe River in Carroll County Tuesday. The Girl Scouts came from Camp Sycamore Valley near by and rented canoes ...Read more

There’s been closure in a cold case in South Bend from 1988. Miriam Rice was pregnant in June of 1988 when she was kidnapped and then beaten to death. On Wednesday the second and final suspect, ...Read more

Kids and their families will get to experience the country of Greece, in Indiana, starting this weekend. The “Treasures of Ancient Greece” and “Take Me There: Greece” ...Read more