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Some Bloomington businesses are struggling to enforce the Monroe County mask mandate as customers feel they no longer need to comply after the end of Indiana’s statewide mandate. Gov. Eric...

BLOOMINGTON – The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down, but it is still affecting many worldwide and in local communities. That’s why Indiana University Health is giving $405,000 in grants to groups...

According to a probable cause affidavit, during the early morning hours of  March 18, 2021, a Bedford Police officer pulled over 46-year-old David McFarling, of Bloomington for not signaling and...

BLOOMINGTON – The City’s second Black Lives Matter street mural was approved April 13 by the Board of Public Works for installation on the north side of the downtown square. The...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a man convicted in the 2000 killing of a Indiana University student, rejecting it months after a...

Bloomington, Ind. –  The Bloomington Arts Commission (BAC) invites area arts groups to apply for funding through the Spring 2021 Grants for the Arts program. Nonprofit organizations and arts-based entities...

BEDFORD – A Bloomington woman was arrested Saturday after Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputies were alerted to a physical altercation at a home in the 300 block of Kentucky Hollow Road....

BLOOMINGTON – Monroe County officials said in a COVID-19 press conference Friday, that the county’s social distancing and mask requirements will remain in place until May 28. Monroe County will continue...

At its Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved a rezone request that will allow the redevelopment of a warehouse—two-thirds of it, anyway—that sits just to the west of Switchyard Park...

BLOOMINGTON – Lt. Paul Bucher, commander of Indiana State Police Bloomington Post, recently welcomed Senior Trooper Kent Rohlfing and Trooper Ian Portteus to the district after they have been approved for...

MONROE CO. – Around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, were called to Holland Drive after a report of a possible injured person stuck in a tree. When units arrived, they found a tree...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Friends and family are mourning the loss of an IU student who fell from the balcony of a fourth floor apartment early Friday morning. The incident is under investigation by...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An IU student is dead after a fall from a fourth floor balcony on Friday. According to Bloomington police, officers responded to Urban Station Apartments around 5:42...

BLOOMINGTON – A firefighter from the Monroe Fire Protection District was treated for smoke inhalation at a woods fire Sunday afternoon. The firefighter was treated at the scene by IU Health...

BLOOMINGTON – The Monroe Fire Protection District has announced the hiring of Danny Gillespie as Battalion Chief. Chief Gillespie has served as a volunteer firefighter with Oolitic and Shawswick Township Volunteer...