BURLINGTON — Saving Echo Lake by upgrading a city-owned dam would require extending an above-ground retaining wall about 200 feet into nearby Veterans Park, city officials said Tuesday.

A long-neglected segment along the Lake Brazos Dam has deteriorated to an unsafe degree, according to city officials. Engineering firm Freese and Nichols estimates it will cost about $5 million to ...

Catholic churches across northern Lake County will merge over the next "several years" into four parishes, the Diocese of Gary said, in an effort to offset the impact of shrinking numbers of ...