PORTER — Celebrate the migration of bird life through the Indiana Dunes region from May 5-8 at the second-annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival.

Three more statewide organizations, the Hoosier Environmental Council, Hoosier Chapter Sierra Club and Citizens Action Coalition, announced today that they have taken a position against an Indiana Department of Natural Resources proposal to build a new banquet and conference facility on the beach at the Indiana Dunes State Park. Instead, the groups support a prior …read more.

Select Indiana state parks will close temporarily to allow for controlled deer reductions in the coming weeks. The dates for the temporary closings are Nov. 17 and 18, and Dec. 1 and 2. The state parks affected are Brown County, Chain O’Lakes, Charlestown, Clifty Falls, Fort Harrison, Harmonie, Indiana Dunes, Lincoln, McCormick’s Creek, Ouabache, Pokagon, …read more.