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Merz pledges new Ukraine aid in Kyiv as Russian strikes continue
Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced more than 1.3 billion euros in new aid in Kyiv on Sunday as Russia hit a capital bridge and a bomb killed one person in Sumy.
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Mrvan backs Hammond Bears build as Lake County waits on taxes and a final site
Mrvan backs a Hammond Bears build for local trades while Repay seeks a Stadium Authority seat and Cid holds county food-and-beverage taxes until the Bears lock in.
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IURC reopens AES Indiana’s $71 million rate hike after Braun board shake-up
Regulators vote 3-1 to reconsider the June order and reopen the record on Google’s Monrovia data center and a BlackRock-led AES deal; Sept. 17 prehearing set in Indianapolis.
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Gary Mayor Melton presses NIPSCO for credits, food pay and grid fixes after derecho
Melton’s Recovery Action Plan demands bill credits, spoilage reimbursements, and grid investments after Aug. 11 outages he called “unacceptable” when thousands in Gary stayed dark past 12 days.
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Indiana lawmakers, Braun lock in SB 27 financing bid for Hammond Bears stadium
Senate 45-4 and a same-day Braun signature put an NWI stadium authority and Lake–Porter tax toolkit on the books; Porter County still fights food-and-beverage levies.
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Lake County Council urges IURC to reject NIPSCO rate hike after derecho filings
A unanimous council vote and a planned Gary protest add local pressure as consumer advocates challenge tracker filings made while hundreds of thousands were still without power.
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ISP Maj. Jerry Williams wins Lake County sheriff Democratic primary
A 33-year Indiana State Police veteran tops a six-candidate field on a commissary-audit and accountability platform, with a November path that could make him the county’s first African-American sheriff.
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Rokita sues Merrillville over ICE warehouse resolution after cease-and-desist
The attorney general says Resolution 26-02 and related outreach unlawfully blocked federal detention space; the Town Council says the measure was a protected opinion and tabled a July rescission.
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Mrvan and Regnitz locked in for November IN-01 rematch of Region politics
The Highland Democrat and Valparaiso Republican cleared May primaries in a district Cook rates “likely Democratic,” with Trump’s July endorsement and NRCC backing sharpening the fall fight.
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Lake and Porter school board ballots carry party labels for first time
Eighteen of 45 Lake County candidates filed as Democrats or Republicans under a new state law; Porter’s uncontested slate skews nonpartisan, with empty seats in two townships.
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Trump-backed challengers oust Dernulc and Niemeyer in NWI Senate primaries
De Vries and Starkey toppled incumbents who voted against mid-decade congressional maps, reshaping Lake County’s November Senate races and fueling Braun’s leadership fight in Indianapolis.
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Mrvan asks FERC for federal probe of NIPSCO after August derecho outages
The Highland Democrat’s Sept. 10 letter seeks a joint FERC-NERC review of storm readiness, vegetation spending, and restoration timelines that left tens of thousands in Lake and Porter counties dark for nearly two weeks.
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