MIDDLEBURY — NorthWood’s girls basketball team beat both Merrillville and Northridge to win the Bankers Classic Tournament Saturday.

MERRILLVILLE — NIPSCO is awarding 15 local nonprofit organizations with grants—totaling $50,000—to help fund restoration and education projects throughout northern Indiana. This year’s winners include: Boys & Girls Club of White County, community environmental education programming Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana, Spaceship Earth education programming City of LaPorte Park and Recreation Department, erosion control …read more.

MERRILLVILLE — Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) natural gas customers will see a lower rate increase than originally proposed in the company’s pending regulatory rate review, as a result of a collaborative agreement reached with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC), industrial customers and the NIPSCO Gas Supplier Group. The proposed agreement …read more.

MERRILLVILLE – The Warsaw boys basketball team lost at Merrillville 62-48 Saturday night.

MICHIGAN CITY – The Warsaw boys basketball team saw its season end Saturday night with a 50-46 loss to Merrillville in the regional title game.

LAPORTE — The Northridge Lady Raiders claimed the school’s first-ever basketball regional title Saturday night against Merrillville.

WARSAW – Visting Merrillville rallied in the second half to top Warsaw 53-48 in boys basketball action Saturday,

WARSAW – The boys basketball games between Merrillville and host Warsaw for Saturday have been moved up to 3/4:30 p.m.

By NICK MEYER NIPSCO Communications MERRIVILLE — Electric service has been affected by a combination of freezing rain, low temperatures and high winds throughout the day. More than 10,000 NIPSCO customers scattered across northern Indiana are affected. Mainly, weather conditions have resulted in downed power lines being weighed down by ice and slick roadways causing …read more.

Why the pink pen? Who the heck is Oscar? Well, you know the Oscars are this weekend. So, that answers one question. But, why the pink pen? Every week I write out my picks before typing them up. I typically do this with my perfect Sharpie pen (product placement…ca-ching!) but, I lost that pen. So, …read more.

By CARLEE GLASSBURN Purdue University The annual Midwest Women in Agriculture Conference is set to meet the needs of women in all sectors of agriculture. The conference will be held Feb. 18 and 19 at the Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza in Merrillville, 800 E. 81st Ave. A preconference program will be held at 1 …read more.

LAPORTE – Wawasee continued to build in the early going of the 2014-15 wrestling season with an appearance at the LaPorte Duals Saturday afternoon. The Warriors went 1-4 on the day in the team duals, taking a win against Hammond and losses to Lafayette Jeff, Thornton (Ill.), LaPorte and Merrillville. Wawasee had one undefeated wrestler …read more.

Wawasee Fourth At Culver Invite In the final invitational of the season for the Wawasee cross country teams, the boys placed fourth at the small team standings. Wawasee scored 165 points to take fourth out of 40 teams, short of champion Illiana Christian’s 64, West Lafayette’s 103 and Brebeuf Jesuit’s 144. The Warriors were led …read more.