With highs staying below freezing, warming centers are open across Michiana. Libraries and community spaces are offering a safe place to get out of the cold.

"You don’t have to have a perfect history," Police Chief Dan Milanese told the Elkhart Board of Public Safety last week. "That’s not what we look for, but there are some significant things that people have in their past that we’re unable to rectify, when it comes to that background process in hiring."

When it comes to keeping highways clear from snow and ice, the Indiana Department of Transportation says it starts preparing long before the first flakes fall. INDOT Northeast District Public Relations Director Hunter Petroviak says training and planning start early in the fall, and crews constantly monitor weather forecasts once winter arrives.

The South Bend school board is forming a committee to review discipline data under a decades-old federal desegregation order and report findings in January.

Prompted by growing consumer frustration over long power outages, the Michigan Public Service Commission in 2022 launched a third-party audit of the state's two largest electric utilities.

Marshall County is officially disbanding its sewer district. It was established to expand sewer service to homes currently served by septic systems, but residents and elected officials voiced concern about the cost to homeowners.