Nationally top-rated Crime Junkies podcaster Ashley Flowers, a South Bend native, is giving La Casa de Amistad $500,000 to expand its immigration legal services clinic.
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The St. Joseph County Drainage Board on Tuesday indefinitely tabled a request from Amazon to drain 640 acres to build the foundation for their next set of data shells. Farmers worry that the Niezpodziany Ditch and its receiving river, the Kankakee, can't handle the 35 million gallons of water a day that would be discharged from the dewatering.
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Elkhart County’s H-1B hiring rate trails the national average, with 25 new hires in 2025. Manufacturing led local approvals, according to a new analysis.
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Griffin Nate, communications director for Republican congressman Rudy Yakym, argues that the St. Joseph County Election Board and clerk's officer are biased against their case, so they it moved to Elkhart County for court review of the board's 3-0 vote to let Republican St. Joseph County Council member Dan Schaetzle run as a Republican in the May primary election.
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Mighty Earth, a global environmental advocacy group, is pressuring RV makers to stop using wood from Borneo, where orangutans are losing their habitat, and instead work through the Forest Stewardship Council to source their wood.
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Mishawaka officials are making their case for a water rate hike. The average residential customer could expect their monthly water bill to go up by at least two dollars a year for the next five years, under the proposed ordinance.
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Leaders from Indiana are reacting to Saturday’s airstrikes against Iran. In a post on X, Senator Jim Banks said, “A Trump red line isn’t a warning–it’s a promise.”
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