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The new Wingtip Aviation hangar at the Gary/Chicago International Airport opened Friday, July 17, 2026, almost two years after officials broke ground on the project. (Vincent D. Johnson / for the Post-Tribune)

Gary airport celebrates $12 million hangar opening

July 17, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

Wingtip Aviation, a Valparaiso-based company, will occupy the Gary airport’s new $12 million, 97,000-square-foot hangar.

A view of the skyline along Interstate 290 as a thick haze from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota settles over Chicago the morning of July 16, 2026. (Peter Tsai/baiduhai)

Northwest Indiana has one week of poor air quality after IDEM alert

July 16, 2026 at 3:37 p.m.

Northwest Indiana continues to feel the effects of Canadian wildfire smoke as another Air Quality Action Day is called and events are canceled regionwide.

Citizens Action Coalition Program Director Ben Inskeep speaks at a Gary community forum Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at the city's public safety facility. Inskeep and other organization officials spoke about rising utility bills and affordability concerns. (Maya Wilkins/Post-Tribune)

Gary council hosts utility affordability forum with Citizens Action Coalition

July 16, 2026 at 3:13 p.m.

Three Gary council members brought the Citizens Action Coalition to the city to talk about residents’ concerns with high utility bills and data centers.

A sign warns of an air quality alert as smoke from wildfires burning in Canada reaches Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

IDEM forecasts another Air Quality Action Day for Northwest Indiana

July 15, 2026 at 3:41 p.m.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced that Thursday will be the fourth Air Quality Action Day for Northwest Indiana this week.

Tod Demakos holds a sign protesting a potential data center outside Town Hall along Ridge Road prior to the start of Munster Plan Commission meeting in Munster on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. An overflow crowd showed up to protest a variance for a project at the former Lansing Country Club that would permit data centers. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Munster Plan Commission tables data center-related ordinance

July 15, 2026 at 2:07 p.m.

More than 50 people talked about how an ordinance allowing a data center at Kenmara Technology Park would impact local residents at Tuesday's Munster Plan Commission meeting.

Graphic artist “Kuaze” reaches for a can of spray paint while creating a mural during the Miller Beach Lake Effekt mural painting exhibition in Gary, Indiana, Saturday, June 13, 2026. The Miller Beach Arts and Creative District was one of 49 projects awarded READI 2.0 Arts and Culture grant. The grant will go toward building improvements and costs for Lake Effekt ArtsFest in June 2027. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Miller Beach organization awarded state READI 2.0 arts grant

July 14, 2026 at 3:27 p.m.

The Miller Beach Arts and Creative District was awarded $172,756 from the READI 2.0 program for building improvements and an arts festival.

Visitors flock to the water at Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton to escape the summer heat on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management declared two Air Quality Action Days for Northwest Indiana this week. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

IDEM declares two Air Quality Action Days for Northwest Indiana

July 13, 2026 at 3:14 p.m.

The agency cited high ozone levels as the reason for Monday and Tuesday's Air Quality Action Days, according to an announcement.

Gary City Hall is pictured on Sept. 16, 2025. (Maya Wilkins/Post-Tribune)

Gary launches composting pilot program for residents

June 30, 2026 at 10:09 a.m.

The program will teach about 100 households to compost through four cohort groups, and it's received $300,000 from the USDA.

Natalie Ammons watches her great-grandchildren including Alivia, 4, play outside her home near the U.S. Steel Gary Works plant in Gary on May 26, 2026. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Gary residents say US Steel is jeopardizing their jobs and air quality by failing to install modern furnaces

June 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Direct reduction furnaces operate at lower temperatures and burn natural gas. U.S. Steel is building one of these facilities in Arkansas but says it is too costly for Gary.

Aetna Elementary, 1327 Arizona St., is pictured in a 2018 file photo. Community members have pitched the property as a potential site of a future retirement community. (Carole Carlson/Post-Tribune)

Aetna resident group wants retirement community at former school

June 27, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

A group of Aetna neighborhood residents want to bring a "retirement resort" to Gary, and they already have the support of one city official.

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