Michael Gallenberger
ReporterMichael Gallenberger joined WVPE as a weekend announcer and newscaster in 2021, before joining the station full-time as a news reporter in 2025. His radio career has included stints at Lakeshore Public Media in Merrillville, WKVI-Knox, WYMR-Culver and WVUR-Valparaiso. His reporting has won awards from the Indiana Broadcasters Association and the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Michael holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Valparaiso University.
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"The process is working fine," said council member Oliver Davis. "If people bring up a frivolous issue, it’s voted off and we move on." -
"Had they handled themselves more professionally and waited for more facts to become available, this would not have become a sensationalized story making national headlines," Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman said during a press conference Wednesday. "Because they chose not to do so, my family and I have been dragged through the mud unnecessarily with clickbait headlines." -
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“We gather in grief. We gather in community. We gather in hope,” said Carrie Bowie with the Michiana Alliance for Democracy. -
The commissioners passed a resolution Thursday, urging local governments and utility providers “to develop and implement a comprehensive regulatory framework.” It also calls on developers to publicly disclose how much water they expect to use and where they’d get their power – along with steps they’d take to avoid financial impacts on local residents. -
The South Bend Police Department says its Use of Force Committee will evaluate the arrest to make sure officers followed the department’s policies. The department says it shared the bodycam footage to “to dispel some narratives” shared on social media. -
“We want to honor and humanize the lives that were taken by ICE – have been taken by ICE – and to highlight the fact that we want this to stop,” said Carrie Bowie with the Michiana Alliance for Democracy, which is organizing the event. -
A Milford man who called for the bombing of government buildings and the assassination of President Trump was sentenced this week in federal court. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Douglas Thrams, 24, pleaded guilty to “making interstate communication with a threat to injure.” -
"We really want to move forward with that study to figure out how we can close those 11 miles between the Mishawaka and South Bend trail system and the Elkhart-Goshen trail system," Michiana Area Council of Governments Executive Director James Turnwald told MACOG's Transportation Technical Advisory Committee on Wednesday. "That way, we can kind of achieve about a 60-mile connected trail." -
“In our local hospitals, we’re seeing quite an increase over this last week in the number of folks who are testing positive for influenza, though I will say it’s nice that the number of folks hospitalized with influenza is a little bit lower this week than it was in the last couple of weeks,” Dr. Jason Marker said in a Beacon Health System YouTube video Wednesday.
