Lake commissioners to hold tax veto meeting May 10

CROWN POINT | Lake County commissioners will be in a position to veto a local income tax next week if the County Council approves one.

Lake County officials retiring government complex escalators

CROWN POINT | The public will have to work its way around a construction zone limiting access to the Lake County Government Complex's administration building for several months.

Lake police and fire chiefs pick Crown Point as call center location

CROWN POINT | Municipal police and fire officials voted Thursday to base their consolidated emergency 911 dispatch call center inside the Lake County Government Complex here.

Lake auditor and treasurer offices will be open Veterans Day for tax payments

CROWN POINT | The Lake County auditor's and treasurer's offices will be open for extended hours and will forgo closing their offices Veterans Day to accommodate last-minute taxpayers.

Critics: Plant deal, not apology, needed

More than two months after would-be trash-to-ethanol developer Earl Powers walked out on a meeting with Lake County solid waste officials, he has issued a letter of apology.

Lake County advances plan for government complex improvements

CROWN POINT | Lake County Jail inmates will finally get their chance to be on television thanks to millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements county officials are planning.

Rising tide of supplemental pay doesn't raise all boats

CROWN POINT | About $1 million of the rising toll of Lake County government user fees is being diverted by officials to the pay of a charmed circle of their employees.

Lake County police rise up for the fallen

Drainage project dredges up dispute

CROWN POINT | The Lake County Drainage Board voted Wednesday to spend an additional $19,200 to dredge sediment from a 3-acre retention pond at the Lake County Government Complex on North Main Street in Crown Point.

Lake County Health Department, Hoshaw have grown old together

CROWN POINT | Esther Hoshaw will soon end a 46-year career in health care this month when she retires as deputy administrator of the Lake County Health Department.