GUEST COMMENTARY: A comprehensive view of health care

A community’s quality of life is measured by many factors, but physical and emotional health is, arguably, the most important.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Accessible, comprehensive mass transit system needed

Northwest Indiana has been shaped and continues to be sustained by transportation.

EDITORIAL: IUN, Ivy Tech should reach toward shared facility

Indiana University Northwest and Ivy Tech Community College are talking about building a shared structure along the 35th Avenue corridor in Gary. It's a promising idea.

IUN graduates told to live out their legacy

GARY | More than 800 graduating students were welcomed into the family of Indiana University alumni Thursday.

William Lowe

GUEST COMMENTARY: Make NWI a community in harmony with environment

Lake Michigan is a tremendous asset for Northwest Indiana. Its water supply and transportation channel are significant reasons for industry's continuing presence here. The lake also supports a thriving and varied ecosystem and the many recreational opportunities that contribute to our qualit…

PUBLISHER'S LETTER

Though reality sometimes seemed hard-edged during 2011, glimpses of the future are undeniably encouraging.

Adventures in Everyday Living: Shorelines, Thursday, September 22

Congrats and see you again soon to Shore Cover Girl and Weather Watcher Ginger Zee, from Grand Rapids and Valparaiso, who leaves Channel 5 in Chicago at the end of the month and begins her new gig in New York on ABC-TV's Good Morning America in October; meanwhile Corya Channing and John Lisb…

Adventures in Everyday Living: Shorelines, Thursday, September 15

Maestro Kirk Muspratt, John Cain, Chancellor William J. and Pamela Lowe, Cindy and Gary Ault, John Cain, Tricia Hernandez, Chris Morrow and other assorted NISO luminaries and SSA board dignitaries get together to kickoff the season in honor of Benefactors Extraordinaire Joe and Sandy Morrow …

IUN marks 10-year anniversary of attacks

IUN marks 10-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Maintain our region's strong support for the arts

Whether through poetry, paintings, sculpture or performance, communities that nurture artistic endeavors report a higher quality of life. A love of creative expression and its many artistic manifestations foster a healthy sense of well-being across the fullest range of human experiences and,…

William Lowe

William Lowe is chancellor at Indiana Unversity Northwest.

IU Northwest Gala celebrates 25 years of scholarship

HOBART | Two recent graduates of Indiana University Northwest were honored for their philanthropy Thursday night as the university celebrated 25 years of scholarship at Avalon Manor.

IU Northwest a catalyst to advancing quality of life in Calumet Region

Colleges were once considered "ivory towers", places where students and faculty were cloistered away from the world. Not any more.

GUEST EDITORIAL: NWI must improve access to affordable housing

Nothing measures the quality of life in Northwest Indiana better than the availability of good, affordable housing, along with the financial literacy that makes home ownership possible.

Accountability, affordability big concerns for higher education

At a time when thousands of laid-off and underemployed workers are joining traditional college students in the classroom and education reformers are demanding the U.S. produce more college graduates, a book released in January by the University of Chicago Press says academe is failing.

Lowe offically takes reins at IUN

GARY | More than 300 people transformed the Savannah Center gym at Indiana University Northwest into an auditorium Friday as William Lowe was installed as the sixth chancellor.

Replacing hall at top of list, IUN chancellor says

GARY | New Indiana University Northwest Chancellor William Lowe contends constructing a new Tamarack Hall is a "high priority," but he does not know how soon it will happen.