South Bend Community Schools Corporation Trustee Bill Sniadecki is asking a federal court to intervene and put him on the St. Joseph County Public Library board before it passes its 2026 budget Oct. 20.

Francis Rooney's gift to Notre Dame will endow an institute in the College of Arts & Letters committed to the preservation of American democracy through research, teaching and public engagement. Rooney quit the House after two terms when he started having fund-raising troubles as he opposed Trump initiatives.

Two nonprofits, Friends of Potato Creek State Park and Indiana Barns Foundation, want the state to delay the Potato Creek State Park barn demolition so they can try to raise money to save it.

Notre Dame associate professor Joyce Adams says new mothers need to be seen by a doctor sooner than six weeks after delivery. Her pilot project with 104 new mothers in the area will give them monthly visits with a nurse and community health worker over the baby's first year.

As new housing developments come into South Bend, advocates say there’s still a need for affordable and subsidized housing.

Next year St. Joseph County emergency management officials hope to activate a new feature to send out a sound different than the ones signaling tornadoes, for non-weather emergencies like acts of terrorism, mass shootings and hazardous material disasters.