NEWTON COUNTY, Ind. — Though researchers scoured grasslands at Kankakee Sands in the hopes of finding one, it wasn’t until they checked a portion of prairielands on the property’s eastern edge that ...

Get the latest forecast and conditions. Be prepared when severe weather hits. More rain is likely today and Wednesday as flood warnings continue for the Kankakee River at Shelby, Ind., and for Sugar ...

The Indiana Department of Transportation will close of Ind. 49 between Ind. 8 and Ind. 10 on Monday through the end of August while the Ind. 49 bridge over the Kankakee River is painted. Residents and ...

Franciscan Health Rensselaer (Ind.) hospital will close its licensed residential unit this fall, according to the Kankakee Valley Post News. The hospital’s 21-bed AlternaCare unit is slated to close ...

With the first snow storm on the way, schools in the Chicago area and Indiana have started to announce closures or shifts to E-learning on Monday.

A Knox man died Tuesday after his truck was hit head-on by a Munster woman who was seen driving erratically just before the crash on Ind. 49 near the Kankakee River, police said. Timothy A. Jacobs, 52 ...

Six teams of students and faculty raced for 50 miles (100 laps) to determine the winner, with the main focus of raising money for the Hudecek family. (NCE PHOTO/GREGORY MYERS) Six teams of students ...