Berrien County has approved incentives for another workforce housing development. Orchard View Lofts would bring 144 apartments to the area near I-94 and Niles Road in St. Joseph Township.
-
Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker on Friday said she's confident that Nicholas Stanley will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering 38-year-old Allen Cogswell in revenge for molesting Stanley's family member.
-
The event will bring food vendors, musical acts and other activities to Howard Park on Saturday and Sunday.
-
Nicholas Stanley's defense attorney, Vincent Campiti, on Thursday told Elkhart Circuit Judge Michael Christofeno that he was wrong, and risks a retrial, for refusing to tell the jury that they can convict Stanley on the lesser charge of manslaughter for acting in "sudden heat."
-
Rebecca Ford, who lives next to the 2020 S. Main St. site, on Thursday told the South Bend Redevelopment Commission that she saw a demolition firm bury wells of chemical solvents with building materials instead of removing the wells. But city officials and KCG Development say tests have shown the soil is safe for residential use.
-
Court records show Paul D. Lundy, the Elkhart man charged after police say he was seen looking into Beardsley Elementary school windows Tuesday and then led police on a chase in the nude later, has been in and out of prison for a variety of non-violent felony convictions over the past decade.
-
Residents, along with South Bend Common Council members Sherry Bolden-Simpson and Oliver Davis Jr., want the city to do more to improve traffic safety and emergency response in the growing Lafayette Falls subdivision.
WVPE Features
If you want to submit a photo, email it to photo@WVPE.com. Your entry could be the next WVPE Photo of the Week.
Saturday 10/3/2026
WVPE is hiring
September 26th & 27th at Howard Park in South Bend, Indiana
The WVPE Newscast
Local News and Stories from the WVPE News Team delivered to your email inbox every week.
Latest From NPR News
-
On Saturday night, there were separate mass shootings near South Africa's two largest cities.
-
The Protect College Sports Act is on the brink of passing in the Senate, where a handful of former college athletes who are now senators on both sides of the aisle have an extra say in the debate.
-
A 300-year-old Mexican musical tradition is finding new life around the world — one sweaty, joyous, all-night fandango at a time.
-
Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.
-
Lung cancer is still the top cancer killer, but new developments are shifting what the future might hold for patients.