The U.S. Supreme Court could take on an Indiana legal dispute over who should have access to Lake Michigan's shoreline. The State of Indiana and a community group both filed briefs on Friday urging the court not to hear the case.

U.S. Steel says it normally discharges some material into the Burns Waterway, this time it just happened to foam.

About 3 million tourists visit the county each year, primarily for Lake Michigan and its beaches.

This is not the first time the city-county 911 agreement's future is in jeopardy. County officials sent a similar letter to the city in February of 2016.

Hammond, Indiana, and Chicago Heights, Illinois, officials signed a deal under which Hammond will supply more drinking water to the Illinois city for resale.

The LaGrange County Soil and Water Conservation District in Indiana is among seven organizations reciving funding to install best-management practices for limiting soil loss and applying fertilizer in ways intended to keep it on the land instead of washing into the Great Lakes.

In a Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday, National Park Service Acting Director P. Daniel Smith disagreed with plans to make Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore a national park.

National Park Service acting director P. Daniel Smith says the administration wants to limit that designation to certain types of sites.

The high court receives between 7,000 and 8,000 certiorari petitions annually. A case is reviewed if four of the nine justices agree to accept it. The justices decided about 70 cases during the 2017-18 term.

A state analysis of local wind patterns suggest that the lead released by the mill complex could be blowing north and west toward Chicago or south toward the Indiana community of Chesterton.