Northwest Indiana

Recovery efforts continue in Northwest Indiana after last week's severe storms. The National Weather Service confirmed the storms produced two tornadoes in the towns of St. John and Munster on Tuesday, Aug. 11.

The standards set by the Biden administration aim to address a kind of pollution that isn't being controlled right now — leaks of toxic heavy metals and fine particles that don't come from a single point like a smoke stack. This pollution puts people living nearby at a greater risk for lung and heart problems as well as certain cancers.

The new standards were supposed to reduce a kind of pollution at steel mills that isn't being controlled right now — leaks of toxic heavy metals and fine particles that don't come from a single point, like a smoke stack.

This week's tornado outbreak across parts of the Midwest produced a short-lived tornado that swept through northwest Indiana before moving onto Lake Michigan as a waterspout, the National Weather Service said.