Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 6:00 AM EDT
|By Jonathan Shelley
Storms packing hurricane-force winds pummeled northeastern Indiana, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers and causing substantial damage.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2022 at 8:29 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
After a five week suspension, jury trials will resume at the Allen County Courthouse.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 6:32 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
By unanimous vote, the Northwest Allen County Schools Board on Monday passed a resolution that will end COVID-19 contact tracing and close-contact quarantines.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 6:47 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
The battle of the Allen County high school graduates has set the stage for a friendly Super Bowl wager.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 6:01 AM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
A major winter storm system moving across the region on Wednesday is expected to disrupt air travel for the remainder of the week.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 4:04 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
A leader in the local business community and major supporter of the Turnstone organization has passed away. Family members are remembering Ronald Plassman as a man with a legacy of service to the Fort Wayne community, and especially to those with disabilities.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 1:36 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
A little more than 100 students participated in an offering of COVID-19 vaccination at several Fort Wayne Community Schools sites this week, officials said.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2022 at 12:27 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
City officials believe someone is making calls to residents, claiming -- fraudulently -- that he represents the Fort Wayne 311 call center and is contacting them regarding “garbage collection concerns.”
Updated: Jan. 7, 2022 at 3:53 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Mayor Tom Henry and members of the Fort Wayne City Council are getting together to press for change in the bidding process for solid waste contracts.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2021 at 5:49 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Area schools are trying to stem a surge of hoax threats and social media rumors that have followed last month’s deadly shooting on a campus in Michigan.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Anyone entering campus buildings at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) will be required to wear a mask through at least the end of January.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Representatives of IU Health will answer questions this week regarding plans for a new medical facility on Ernst Road in southwest Allen County.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2021 at 3:38 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
The man accused of killing a toddler in May is set to appear in court on Friday.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2021 at 1:12 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
A Fort Wayne man accused of killing a toddler will get six additional months to prepare his case before going to trial.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2021 at 11:50 AM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
An Indiana senator believes a US Supreme Court ruling allowing individual states to largely manage matters like abortion rights would be a key step toward eliminating “a lot of the contention” seen in the country.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 at 10:28 AM EST
|By Jazlynn Bebout and Jonathan Shelley
Local lawmakers are taking aim at Indiana businesses that enact vaccination mandates and the statewide public health emergency that has been in effect since March 2020.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2021 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Fort Wayne police are investigating a late afternoon shooting that sent one person to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 10:51 AM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Tuesday is the first of six “free skate days” at the Headwaters Park ice rink.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 5:15 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Volunteers at the St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen in Fort Wayne were putting the finishing touches Monday afternoon on Thanksgiving meals for as many as 1,000 people.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 12:01 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley and Jazlynn Bebout
Thanks to an agreement between state regulators and Indiana Michigan Power, base rates for residential customers will be lowered by about 5 percent. The decrease will be phased in over the next 14 months, officials say.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2021 at 5:26 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Friday signed an Executive Order that will lift certain restrictions on truck drivers to step-up the delivery of propane gas across the state.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2021 at 3:11 PM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
COVID-19 cases have caused the Purdue Fort Wayne women’s basketball game against Ball State University to be called off.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 11:00 AM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
The 2021 “Coats for Kids” drive shifted into high gear on Wednesday with the official launch event at MLK Montessori.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2021 at 10:22 AM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
A widespread internet service disruption is affecting 21Country -- and other parts of the country, too.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2021 at 11:59 AM EST
|By Jonathan Shelley
The Northwest Allen County School (NACS) Board on Monday night passed a resolution that clears the way for a “mandatory mask” rule to expire before the holiday break.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2021 at 3:05 PM EDT
|By Jonathan Shelley
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Columbia City) is free to Tweet on his official account once again.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 4:03 PM EDT
|By Jonathan Shelley
A coffee shop, cider company and a restaurant that closed its doors during the pandemic are among the merchants who will help launch the Union Street Market at Electric Works.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 3:27 PM EDT
|By Jonathan Shelley
Gov. Eric Holcomb is directing Indiana officials to take legal action that challenges the Biden Administration’s federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2021 at 10:59 AM EDT
|By Jonathan Shelley
A lawsuit targeting Gov. Eric Holcomb, the State of Indiana and the Wells County Health Department over pandemic mask rules at restaurants was dismissed Monday afternoon.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 4:38 PM EDT
|By Jonathan Shelley
The official Twitter account of Rep. Jim Banks was frozen on Saturday after Twitter flagged a recent post as violating its terms of service.