Gary Community

05/29/2024

Gary International Film Festival honored with award

The Gary International Black Film Festival was honored for achievement in the cultural arts.

05/29/2024

Miller Beach's much-anticipated Brass Idol American Diner opens Saturday.
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/chef-hopes-new-brass-idol-restaurant-will-help-revitalize-miller/article_be211606-b5db-11ee-a215-3b48c43a8610.html

05/28/2024

T-Mobile to acquire wireless operations of former Sox park sponsor U.S. Cellular

T-Mobile, which has multiple Region locations such as in Highland, Griffith, Dyer, St. John, Crown Point, Merrillville, Gary, Hammond, Portage and Valparaiso, plans to acquire most of U.S. Cellular's assets.

05/28/2024

Strack & Van Til logo appears on racecar at the Indianapolis 500 for the first time

Strack & Van Til's logo appeared on Christian Lundgaard's No. 45 car at the Indianapolis 500 this Memorial Day weekend. Strack's new parent company, the suburban Des Moines-based Hy-Vee, sponsors

05/28/2024

'Home Alone' house in Chicago suburbs now for sale

If you're looking for the perfect place to eat junk and watch rubbish, the "Home Alone" house in suburban Chicago is now for sale.

05/26/2024

NWI Business Ins and Outs: Family Pizza & BBQ, King of Budz, Harbor Freight Tools, Brothers BBQ and Seoul Food, Crazy Snacks, Shillings, Dunkin' and Culver's opening; Enzo's for sale

NWI Business Ins and Outs: Family Pizza & BBQ, King of Budz, Harbor Freight Tools, Brothers BBQ and Seoul Food, Crazy Snacks, Shilling, Dunkin' and Culver's opening; Enzo's for sale

05/24/2024

The Gary Air Show is back as an annual event and will be bringing back the Golden Knights this year.

The Gary Air Show has lined up enough private sponsors to be sustainable as an annual event in the long term, Gary Mayor Eddie Melton said.

05/23/2024

New Golden Afternoon florist and gift shop, launched by veterans of Bloomin' Barn on 45th Street in Highland, to celebrate grand opening in downtown Highland

"Do you remember that opening scene in 'Gremlins' where Hoyt Axton first buys Gizmo at the little back alley shop? Well, we are that shop. We are esoterica incarnate."

05/22/2024

Meats by Linz, supplier to some of the nation's finest steakhouses, getting new Hammond plant up and running

Meats by Linz, which supplies some of the finest steakhouses in the country, is close to opening its new 120,000-square-foot plant in Hammond.

05/21/2024

Nearly century-old Indiana Botanic Gardens mansion grew into world's largest herbal medicinal company, faces demolition

Indiana Botanic Gardens operated out of a 99-year-old mansion, minting Lake County's first millionaire, enriching him enough to build Meyer's Castle in Dyer and becoming one of the most Regions

05/19/2024

Two killed in motorcycle crash in LaPorte County

Two were killed in a motorcycle crash on U.S. 35 in LaPorte County.

05/19/2024

Joking online reviews claim Valparaiso's Rock Island, a traffic island with rocks cars often hit, is a "must-see" that "healed my family and cured my depression" and is "something everyone should see at least once in their lifetime."

Joking online reviews claim Valparaiso's Rock Island, a traffic island with rocks cars often hit, is a "must-see" that "healed my family and cured my depression" and is "something everyone