Mishawaka

Mishawaka police on Monday were not yet saying whether 10-year-old Sophia Burks' death was accidental. The gun's owner, 17-year-old Jacob Olvera, was awaiting formal charges at the St. Joseph County Juvenile Justice Center.

The median rent in St. Joseph and Cass counties is now $1,375, which is 28% lower than the national median rent of $1,924.

Stephen Sherwood was paroled in 2024 after serving less than half his sentence for beating 4-year-old Hope Barrett to death in a Martinsville motel room in 1995. On New Year's Eve in Mishawaka prosecutors say he held his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint as she held her two-month-old grandson.

St. Joseph County prosecutors have asked a judge to detain 53-year-old Chad Bean until his bond hearing because he's a threat to his victims and the community, after a 2001 kidnapping and confinement conviction in which he used his baby as a shield as a police K-9 tried to bring him down.

Mishawaka Mayor Dave Wood says he's not in touch with the issues opponents have raised regarding a proposed data center near New Carlisle, but he thinks the project's job and tax revenue would benefit the local economy.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has consolidated its offices in South Bend and Mishawaka, which were served by many bus routes, into a lesser-served office park on South Bend's far northwest edge.

Regional officials with Accelerating Indiana Municipalities planned an information meeting Monday at Mishawaka City Hall to talk about how the property tax cuts from Senate Enrolled Act 1 earlier this year will force hard choices on which services to provide.

Cultivate says they wouldn't have been able to accept the food if they had not built their cold storage facility last year in South Bend.

St. Joseph County two years ago hired a firm to identify existing Granger subdivisions with failing septic systems, but paused that work recently when its dispute with Mishawaka developed over who would serve the planned Microsoft data center with water and sewers.

Mishawaka’s new indoor shooting range was approved 8-0, but neighbors say their real concern is traffic, not the range, and they want the city to address it.