Parents, lawmakers, and advocates gathered in Elkhart to launch the Indiana Child Safety Campaign and call for stronger statewide bullying prevention efforts.

The budget adopted by the city council Thursday totals just under $119 million. The city says that’s a reduction of about $6.7 million from this year’s spending plan.

South Bend’s rally is scheduled to start at noon at Jon Hunt Memorial Plaza near the Morris Performing Arts Center. Elkhart’s No Kings protest begins Saturday morning at 10:00 at the Civic Plaza on Main Street. Events are also planned in Niles, Cassopolis, LaPorte, Plymouth, Warsaw and Benton Harbor, according to NoKings.org.

Students from Concord Intermediate joined Mayor Rod Roberson to open JA BizTown’s new City Hall, designed to help kids see themselves in their own community.

An officer's body cam video shows stabbing and confinement suspect Christopher Chester coming at six officers with a hammer. Four fired shots at him, hitting him with eight bullets. He died two hours later at a hospital.

NIPSC0, citing rising wholesale costs it pays for gas, says the average monthly household gas bill this winter is projected to increase 38% compared to 2023.