CENTER TOWNSHIP — Charges are pending against a man accused of running a puppy mill out of his northwest Indiana home.

LOWELL — Police in northwest Indiana are investigating a report of an abandoned baby.

CROWN POINT — Police are searching for a Lake County Jail inmate who escaped Saturday, April 30, after walking away from a laundry area where he was permitted to work, an official said.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School won several awards in the Midwest region of the National Scholastic Art Awards. More specifically, the region is referred to as the Northwest Indiana & Lower Southwest Michigan Regional Art Awards, formerly known as the Friends of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Northwest Indiana Forum President Mark Maassel says the region is seeing “exciting growth” in sectors including metals and health care. The organization will reveal results of an economic indicators report this morning. Maassel says it shows the need to “move more quickly” to increase higher education degree attainment. Findings on the state of the region’s …read more.

NORTHWEST, Ind. — The Center of Workforce Innovations in northwest Indiana is calling for volunteers to offer career counseling to high school students in Lake, Porter, LaPorte and Starke Counties. The program is part of the AmeriCorps Career Advisor Initiative, a program that is going into its second ear of providing high school students with …read more.

The Wawasee 12U All-Star softball team were notified Monday evening it will be a wild card participant in the NSA ‘B’ North World Series, to be played July 23-29 in at various sites in northwest Indiana. Wawasee qualified by placing fifth at the 12U ‘B’ North State tournament in Warsaw over the weekend. The Wawasee …read more.