Elkhart County Council

“It’s something that’s come before you since the 1990s, and now it sits in my lap, and I do feel responsible for not kicking that can down the road and making sure that a problem that’s not going away is addressed with today’s dollars and not tomorrow’s dollars,” Plan Director Mae Hope told council members.

Elkhart County officials say the resignation of Concord Township’s assessor could lead to major cost savings, including salary cuts and a possible office downsizing.

The total spending plan is just under $180 million. That’s a drop of more than $10 million from the advertised proposal, after county officials trimmed the General, Highway, Health, and Election and Registration funds.

A year ago, the Elkhart County Council voted to move the county’s seven courts out of downtown Elkhart and Goshen and put them in a new building near the…

Two more members of the Elkhart County Board of Health are leaving in the latest fallout from the County Council’s unanimous September vote to reject a…

Both Elkhart and St. Joseph County recently passed their budgets for the 2022 fiscal year. The St. Joseph County Council passed a roughly $192 million…

The Elkhart County Commissioners voted Monday to deny the needed zoning changes for a proposed solar farm project. That’s after the county council…

Elkhart County officials will vote on a large-scale proposed solar project this weekend.Kansas City-based energy firm Savion wants to build a solar farm…

The Elkhart County Council voted unanimously Saturday to not apply for a federal health grant that would have helped educate minority populations about…

After contentious lengthy debate Saturday morning, the Elkhart County Council voted to move forward with consolidating the county's courts at a single…