Thirty-three days into the federal government shutdown, South Bend International Airport is collecting donations for Transportation Security Administration workers who are working without pay. Gas cards in $10 increments to specific gas stations are needed most.

Officials with Flock Safety, the company selling South Bend Police a new Drone as First Responder program, say the drones can beat officers to the scene but they also can raise Fourth Amendment unreasonable search concerns if not used legally.

Having vacated both courthouses for their new $112 million courthouse between Elkhart and Goshen, Elkhart County officials want the downtown Elkhart facility demolished and the historic Goshen courthouse renovated for new uses.

St. Joseph commissioners approve a scaled-back downtown parking plan in a 3-2 vote, reducing spaces, shortening the season and responding to business concerns.

After a funeral Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, late former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz on Monday was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery next to the grave of his wife, Beth, who died of cancer in 2020.

St. Joseph County prosecutors say Gloria Niedbalski committed felony identity deception Dec. 9 when she pretended to be County Council member Amy Drake's elderly neighbor in a call to the Department of Child Services. Niedbalski has bonded out of jail and on Monday she resigned from the county's Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.