South Bend

The St. Joseph Valley Fly Fishers invite adults and kids age 10 and up for free fly fishing lessons Saturday (Aug. 29) from 9 a.m. to noon at South Bend's Leeper Park West, near the tennis courts.

South Bend Common Council member Heidi Beidinger says residents in her eastside district are fed up with unruly parties, trash and parking problems from short-term rentals.

The St. Joseph County Health Department sprayed to kill mosquitoes around the Mishawaka wastewater treatment plant this week and plans to spray near the South Bend plant next week, only at dark.

The University of Notre Dame's Institute for Social Concerns invites the public to an event Thursday at 5 p.m. celebrating a new mural by South Bend native Oscar Joyo depicting four noted figures from the city's west side.

Portage Township Trustee Jason Critchlow and the nonprofit We Make Indiana say it's time to better enforce South Bend's rental housing standards, and they'll visit other Indiana cities to see what has worked.

The $350,000 READI grant to Juke Music Town, announced this week by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, will expand an online platform that markets live music and sponsors more live shows in South Bend, Elkhart and Goshen.

The city of South Bend says it expects to pick the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County's proposal to renovate the historic State Theatre, now that the plan has won a $4 million state grant.

The Colfax Bridge rehabilitation, when finished, will have new LED-lit monuments, a wider pedestrian path with a new guardrail, and improvements at the intersections at both ends of the bridge.

WVPE talked with two Elkhart mothers who took their kids to splash pads in Mishawaka and South Bend Wednesday, as Elkhart's McNaughton Spray Park is temporarily closed because of a broken part that's on back order.