Jim Masters

Hammond City Hall is located at Calumet Avenue and Highland Street. (Joe Puchek / Post-Tribune)

Hammond council urged to protect residents targeted by ICE

October 27, 2026 at 3:55 p.m.

Federal immigration enforcement agents are arresting people on the streets of Northwest Indiana and their whereabouts remain unknown, members of the NWI Community Response Team told members of the Hammond...

Site work is proceeding at the Amazon Web Services data center project in Hobart. (Jim Masters/Post-Tribune)

Delivery will cause road closures near Hobart data center in November

October 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.

A delivery of electric transformers to power the Amazon Web Services data center will cause partial closures of 61st Avenue, Mayor Josh Huddlestun announced at Wednesday’s Hobart City Council meeting.

Geisen team members push their coffin with the YMCA Ghostbusters close behind in the final round of the inaugural Crown Point Coffin Cup on Saturday, October 24, 2026. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Geisen Funeral Home team captures Crown Point’s inaugural Coffin Cup

October 25, 2026 at 3:29 p.m.

Geisen Funeral Home evidently knows something about coffins, which came in handy at Saturday’s inaugural Coffin Cup in downtown Crown Point.

Dean of Students DeJuan Eskew hands out tags as students exit their bus at Glen Park Academy on Gary, Indiana Tuesday August 9, 2022. (Andy Lavalley for the Post-Tribune)

Bus service, extracurriculars on the chopping block if school referendums fail

October 26, 2026 at 12:18 p.m.

As Senate Enrolled Act 1 significantly reduces the ability of public schools’ to rely on property taxes to adequately fund operations, administrators see no recourse other than to directly petition...

As site work has proceeded at the Amazon Web Services data center project, nearby residents of Hobart's Eagle Creek subdivision are concerned about air quality from the release of particulate matter. (Jim Masters/Post-Tribune)

Hobart residents await judge’s ruling in data center case

October 20, 2026 at 4:10 p.m.

A trio of Hobart residents had their long-awaited day in court Monday and now await a judge’s decision that could potentially invalidate a fill permit for the Amazon Web Serves...

Amazon providing data center updates on Zoom for Hobart residents

October 19, 2026 at 3:34 p.m.

As Amazon Web Services continues site preparation work for its data center project at 61 Avenue and Colorado Street in Hobart, company officials have begun holding Zoom calls that members...

An excavator moves debris from outside of the Genesis Convention Center in Gary as demolition work begins on the building on Friday, October 16, 2026. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Genesis Center demolished to make way for new chapter in Gary’s downtown

October 18, 2026 at 2:11 p.m.

A symbol of downtown Gary’s hopes and dreams for a vibrant economic future was transformed into a slowly building pile of twisted steel, bronze and glass debris as demolition equipment...

Hobart OKs tax abatement for Becknell Industrial campus

October 17, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

The Hobart City Council granted a 10-year tax abatement for Becknell Industrial’s proposal to build a 356,000-square-foot, four-building structure at its Oct. 7 meeting.

Munster’s middle and high school cross country runners take up carrying the batons as the American Discovery 250 Relay, a cross-country relay traveling more than 6,800 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, made its way through Northwest Indiana and into Munster on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (John Smierciak/for the Post-Tribune)

Munster takes the baton for Indiana stretch of American Discovery 250 relay

October 14, 2026 at 3:46 p.m.

To commemorate the cross-country relay, Lansing Mayor Brian Hardy and other officials passed the relay baton to Munster Town Council President Joe Hofferth and Vice President Chuck Gardiner while bikers,...

Hobart launches its CARES initiative

October 13, 2026 at 5:24 p.m.

In the aftermath of the devastating storm that hit Northwest Indiana on August 11, the city of Hobart is applying lessons learned from its citizens' ability to band together and...

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