The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC) is holding a 30-day public comment period on NIRPC’s Regional Corridor Study (RCS). The comment period began on November 17, 2016 and end on December 21, 2016. The Regional Corridors Study (RCS) is a technical assessment of the major transportation network connectivity in the Northwest Indiana region. Improving mobility and […]

Methodist Hospitals is a Daisy Award Partner.  The Daisy Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day. One nurse from each campus is honored with this award three times a year.  Patients and visitors may nominate a deserving nurse by filling out

MUNSTER – Shelly Recktenwall is a caregiver. A special education teacher from Crown Point, she raised five of her own children before serving as a constant companion to a senior citizen in Munster. When she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in January of 2014, she was more determined than ever to continue to

Join Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson for an evening of “An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies” at the Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. From “Star Wars” to “Frozen” to “The Martian”, an entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined

GRIFFITH – Republic Services, Cambridge Companies (waste facility design-build experts based in Griffith, IN) and Larson Design Group (civil, structural and MEP engineering company based in Apalachin, NY), were awarded ENR Southwest’s Energy/Industrial Best Project for Republic’s Southern Nevada Recycling Center.  The project is being honored at the ENR Best Project Event in Phoenix, AZ

Sharon Jones, a member of the Environmental Services (EVS) team at Northwest Indiana’s Methodist Hospitals, Gary Campus, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Hygiene Specialist Excellence award sponsored by UMF Corporation, a developer of high-performance infection-prevention products. Jones, a resident of Gary, IN, was nominated for the award by her supervisor, Poet Billups, Manager

WESTVILLE – Purdue University Northwest has been named to the 2017 Military Friendly Schools list as compiled by Victory Media Inc. The list honors the nation’s top schools that welcome America’s military service members, veterans and spouses as students and help to ensure their success on campus. PNW is one of more than 1,200 institutions

WESTVILLE – James B. Dworkin, chancellor emeritus of Purdue University North Central, will host a signing of his recently published children’s book, “The Dog and the Jet Ski” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30 in the campus bookstore located on the lower level of the Library-Student-Faculty Building at Purdue Northwest’s Westville Campus.