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Purdue Northwest student Jaelysa Bracey hugs her grandmother, Carrolle Bracey, after being sworn in as an intern with the Lake County Prosecutor's Office High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

PNW students sworn into intern work for Lake County prosecutor

October 1, 2026 at 12:31 p.m.

The students will work with the High Tech Crime Unit, giving them hands-on experience in digital forensic analysis and criminal case work.

Regular unleaded gasoline prices are posted Wednesday at the BP, located at 747 Ridge Road in Munster. (Christin Nance Lazerus/Post-Tribune)

Indiana Gov. Braun extends gas tax holiday, adds diesel relief into November

September 30, 2026 at 2:48 p.m.

Braun announced the suspension of gas usage and excise taxes through Nov. 4 and suspended special fuel restrictions for dyed diesel.

Ricardo Camarena lifts his neighbor Rayshawn Hackey, 6, while playing on the roots of a tree outside their homes on 26th Ave. in Gary, Indiana on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. The tree was toppled Aug. 11. A group of state legislators spent nearly seven hours Monday looking at NIPSCO’s response to the storm. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Indiana statehouse hosts marathon committee meeting into NIPSCO’s storm response

September 29, 2026 at 3:58 p.m.

The committee passed recommendations for future legislation, including requiring procedures for power restoration and for the IURC to conduct a audits of vegetation management.

Lake County finance director details how property tax cuts will affect Gary

September 29, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

Gary Common Council Vice President Darren Washington, D-at large, hosted a community forum looking at the changes in SEA 1 and how it will affect Gary.

Downed trees block traffic on Median Road after a storm passed through Valparaiso, Indiana, on Aug. 11, 2026. (Another state committee plans to discuss NIPSCO’s response to prolonged Northwest Indiana power outages following the powerful storm. Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Indiana statehouse committee to investigate power outages after August storm

September 28, 2026 at 3:32 p.m.

Another state committee plans to discuss NIPSCO and its response to prolonged Northwest Indiana power outages following the Aug. 11 derecho.

Eliazer Glover jumps and dances as his mother, Kal, and father, Samuel, speak about his sickle cell diagnosis in their Hammond home on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

‘He’s special’: Hammond parents detail 3-year-old son’s journey with sickle cell disease

September 27, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

Kal and Samuel Glover found out Eliazer had sickle cell disease at their first pediatrician appointment about a week after he was born.

A view looking south east in Marseilles, Illinois, is the MISO power grid territory, and in the distance, wind tusrbine towers and the nuclear plant which are in the PJM power grid, on April 23, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Indiana receives $175 million for energy growth from DOE SPARK program

September 24, 2026 at 3:43 p.m.

Indiana will receive $175 million to expand the transfer capacity between PJM and MISO interconnection.

The ArcelorMittal steel mill (now owned by Cleveland-Cliffs) and permanently closed Bailly Generating plant, left, in Burns Harbor are seen from Indiana Dunes National Park in 2019. A nuclear power plant was proposed for the Bailly site in the 1970s, but never came to fruition. (Zbigniew Bzdak / baiduhai)

Indiana Gov. Braun announces new state-led nuclear energy program

September 24, 2026 at 2:09 p.m.

The governor and NRC chair announced that Indiana will be considered a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Agreement State in a news conference.

Merrillville residents Dorothea Collins, 54, and her husband, Kenneth Collins, 50, discuss the damage their home sustained in the Aug. 11 derecho. The couple attended a one-stop shop hosted by state and federal officials to help residents access disaster assistance at the United Steel Workers 1014 in Gary on Sept. 23, 2026. (John Smierciak/for the Post-Tribune)

Northwest Indiana residents receive storm assistance at Gary ‘one-stop shop’

September 26, 2026 at 8:30 a.m.

Federal and state resources were made available to Northwest Indiana residents affected by the Aug. 11 derecho.

NWI leaders react to IURC’s confirmed NIPSCO investigation

September 23, 2026 at 3:32 p.m.

In a Tuesday filing, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission announced its investigation into NIPSCO will begin with a Sept. 28 virtual conference.

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