northwest Indiana

A northwest Indiana city councilman has stepped down as vice president of the council after photos surfaced of him wearing blackface at a Halloween party. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez was at the meeting and has more.

A Gary corporal and police dog are being hailed as heroes after locating a missing girl by tracking her scent.

An Indiana teen is now the first Black female to earn the Eagle Scout rank in northwest Indiana, joining a remarkable class of girls and women across the country. Kendall Jackson is just one of 21 Black females to reach this achievement in the country. “I’m honored, I’m blessed, I’m humbled by this experience,” said Jackson. “I’ve learned a...

A local girl is celebrating an incredible achievement, as she is now a member of the first class of Eagle Scouts to include girls. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has her story.

People making the commute home Monday night in northwest Indiana were hit with blowing and drifting snow on the roads as a winter storm pummeled the Chicago area.

Northwest Indiana, including Lake and Porter counties, has seen some eye-popping snowfall totals so far, but more snow could be on the way overnight. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has the latest updates.

Reality television star Kim Kardashian surprised a class of criminal justice students over Zoom at a northwest Indiana university Thursday.

An East Chicago police detective is recovering after he was shot during an altercation Sunday in northwest Indiana.

Icy and snowy weather conditions made it difficult for Rita and Bill Kollmar of St.  John, Indiana, to make it up their driveway last week, but a nearby UPS driver made a big difference because he was at the right place and right time. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has the story.

A car crash that killed a northwest Indiana teenager occurred after the front seat passenger jokingly pushed on the steering wheel just before the car plowed into a utility pole, police said. The 20-year-old woman passenger “pushed the steering wheel to the left in a joking manner” last Friday, causing the 20-year-old driver to lose control of his car, the…

A federal magistrate has revoked the bond for a northwest Indiana man awaiting sentencing in a gang-related case after the FBI charged him for allegedly taking part in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

An officer with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was arrested for a fatal shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in Northwest Indiana’s Lake County, sheriff’s officials said. At approximately 12:12 a.m., officers with the Lake County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call regarding an altercation at a home in the 17900 block of Lincoln Court in unincorporated...

 A woman accused of fatally shooting her roommate in Calumet City turned herself into police hours later in northwest Indiana. Kim Barreto, 61, allegedly shot Pamela L. Burns Sunday morning in the south suburb, according to a statement from Calumet City police. Burns, 45, was shot multiple times in an apartment in the 100 block of Oglesby Avenue, police said….

A 13-year-old girl who was leaning out the window of a car her older sister was driving died when the car left the roadway and she struck a utility pole, northwestern Indiana police said. Kelly Hume of Crown Point was pronounced dead after Saturday night’s single-car accident in the Lake County city, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported. Investigators with the Lake...

Authorities say two people, including a young child, were killed and a third was hospitalized in critical condition after a deadly fire at home in northwest Indiana early Tuesday.

A neighbor captured a massive blaze at a home in Gary, Indiana, that left two people dead and another in critical condition on Tuesday.

 A northwestern Indiana city wants to install a facial recognition video network camera system downtown in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The step comes as state health officials on Friday added 13 more COVID-19 deaths to the state’s pandemic toll. The newly recorded deaths raise the state’s death toll to 3,656, including confirmed and presumed coronavirus...

After a sustained and encouraging decline of coronavirus cases from mid-August through mid-September, cases in Northwest Indiana have headed dramatically upward, reversing more than half of the progress the area has made, according to an analysis of NBC 5 Investigates. In Indiana and overall and in the Northwest region, which encompasses Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton and Jasper counties, cases were…

The future of a longtime family farm, which has been a staple in Northwest Indiana for 80 years, could be in jeopardy as a result of a proposed senior living facility development. Scheeringa Farms, located at 9436 Cline Ave. in Highland, is owned by the family that bears its name, but the family has also farmed another piece of land…

The future of a longtime family farm in the Northwest Indiana town of Highland, which has been a community staple for more than 80 years, could be in jeopardy as a result of a proposed nursing home development. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.