What truly sets Beall Woods apart from other natural areas is its status as a National Natural Landmark and an Illinois Nature Preserve. These designations reflect the site’s ecological significance ...

Pileated woodpeckers – those crow-sized birds with flaming red crests that inspired the Woody Woodpecker cartoon – hammer away at dead trees, leaving distinctive rectangular holes as evidence of their ...

It’s not unconstitutional to limit curtilage to one acre when calculating homestead property taxes, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Monday in a Lake County case. “This is not only a positive outcome ...

In fact, Smith founded and sold his first fishing-based company, which made lures, before he graduated from college.

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...

LAKE COUNTY (WGN) — The Lake County Sheriff’s Department is mourning the loss of one of its own after a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in Schererville. According to officials, an off-duty ...

A corrections officer with the Lake County Sheriff's Department was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in northwest Indiana, authorities said. Ronald T. Jones, 58, who was off duty ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ind. (WLS) -- A Northwest Indiana man is facing a misdemeanor charge after he allegedly exposed himself to an Uber driver while they were traveling to a corrections department building.

POLICE RETURNED FIRE, KILLING HIM. JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS LATER, POLICE WERE CALLED TO THIS HOME ALONG PENDER AVENUE IN PEARL TOWNSHIP, JUST OUTSIDE OF BLAIRSVILLE, WHERE THEY FOUND A MAN IN A ...

Indiana football did it, a win over a top-5 team in the AP poll for the second time in program history and it came at No. 2 Oregon on Saturday. It's the first such win since beating Purdue 19-14 on ...

Video shows the moment of impact in a Smith Lake fishing tournament boat crash that left three people dead. Guerrero homers off Ohtani as Blue Jays even World Series with 6-2 win over Dodgers in Game ...

GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- Charges have been filed in the shooting death of a 9-year-old boy over the weekend in northwest Indiana. Raymon Bell has been charged with neglect, unlawful possession of a firearm ...