The Town of St. John must put a whole lot of work – and expense — into a parcel on which Donald Trump Jr. granted water easement rights before it can annex it, says the Lake County Plan Commission ...

Ivy Tech Community College announced Thursday that John Gipson has been named the next chancellor of the Lake County campus. Gipson, who will assume the role on Sept. 29, is currently the chief of ...

VALPARAISO, Ind. — An investigation is underway after a man drowned in a lake in Porter County, Indiana, on Tuesday night. According to officials from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, the ...

PAINESVILLE, Ohio — A Lake County man who admitted making false bomb threats against county offices in 2024 has been sentenced to 33 months in prison. Kenneth L. Barton Jr. pleaded guilty in July to ...

The Lake County commissioners recently joined the Lake County Volunteer Network and the Lake County Council on Aging in honoring the achievements and contributions of dedicated residents at the 2025 ...

PAINESVILLE, Ohio — A Grand River man has been sentenced to 22 to 27 years in prison in connection with a double overdose case that happened in Mentor in March 2024. Tyrese Johnson was sentenced Aug.

A Painesville man who made bomb threats against the Lake County Adult Probation Department on consecutive days in 2024 has been sentenced to 33 months in prison. According to a Lake County Sheriff’s ...

CROWN POINT — The Lake County Council is seeking to recoup more than $150,000 previously paid to Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. after a state audit concluded the county's chief law enforcement officer was ...

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- The mayor of North Chicago, home of the Navy base that will be used by federal agents, is offering new insight into what an upcoming immigration operation might entail.

The Peter Fire erupted near the town of Kelseyville in Lake County, prompting evacuation orders. The blaze broke out around 2:22 p.m. and has grown to 47 acres. Residents in zone KEL-E150 were ordered ...

PORTER COUNTY, Ind. — A Valparaiso man drowned in Long Lake Monday evening. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (Indiana DNR) said conservation officers responded to the 600 block of West Long ...

Paramedics have served Illinois residents for more than half a century. And Dr. John Peter Freeland is one of the reasons for it. In 1972, Freeland helped create the Northwest Community Emergency ...