The Gilead House has a fighting chance of staying open after the Community Foundation of Howard County agreed to grant the women’s shelter $130,000 to put in a new sprinkler system if it can raise $50,000 in additional revenue.

Despite the emergence of construction plans at a public meeting this month, Dollar General says it has not yet made a formal decision on whether it will locate a store on Kokomo’s north end.

A bill from a Kokomo senator would eliminate party primaries for U.S. Senators in Indiana, transferring the election process to a select group of delegates similar to the nomination process for other statewide offices.

A group of prominent Kokomo projects either progressed or were OK’d last week by the Kokomo City Plan Commission, bringing initiatives ranging from downtown apartments to a new credit union branch closer to fruition.

Second Missionary Baptist Church hosted the Community Ecumenical Service Honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday.

A couple weeks ago, Jimmy Rayl Jr. — son of 1959 Indiana Mr. Basketball and local legend Jimmy Rayl — was at a fifth grade basketball game with former Kokomo High School boys basketball coach Carl McNulty.

First-grader John Edward Hill Jr. stood before the crowd, his head barely reaching the podium on which his papers were placed, and read the words delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. the night before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

The last temporary workers at the Kokomo General Motors Components Holdings plant were laid off last month just weeks before the company announced it was moving 1,350 temporary employees to full-time at 14 U.S. facilities.

TIPTON – If the walls at St. Katharine Hall could talk, they’d have a lot of stories to tell.

A Howard County Republican Party caucus ended Thursday with a new Howard County commissioner and treasurer.

Howard County Coroner Steve Seele announced this week that he is joining a growing list of Republicans seeking either reelection or new positions within county government.

Kokomo Common Councilman Greg Jones, R-4th District, has announced his resignation after Facebook posts from 2015 were uncovered this week showing him calling Muslims “Goat-Humpers” and referring to Islam as “a Theocratic Moon Cult.”

Residents in a Peru housing addition are asking the Indiana Court of Appeals to uphold a ruling that puts Miami County on the hook to repair six deteriorating dams located in the subdivision.

Indiana’s largest privately-held telecom says it has launched a $2.7 million project that will bring increased internet services to rural residents in southern Howard County and northern Tipton County, encompassing the Sharpsville area.

New details have emerged about a major planned investment by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles into Kokomo’s Indiana Transmission Plant II, including information about significant tax credits likely headed to the company.

One hundred years ago today, Indiana became the 26th state to ratify the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.

Former Miami County Recorder Brenda Weaver has filed to run as a Republican for the District 2 county commissioner’s seat, challenging two-term Commissioner Larry West for the position.

Bona Vista Programs announced Tuesday that it will soon take on a Crossing Renovation Project set to include areas ranging from a gym to a public art gallery.

As third-grader Zacariah Yarbrough sat in the Bon Air Technology Academy gym on Tuesday, he listened to the middle school band practice for an upcoming performance – the supposed purpose of that day’s sudden convocation.

INDIANAPOLIS — In his State of the State speech Tuesday, Indiana’s governor announced that Fiat Chrysler plans to spend nearly $400 million on its facilities in Kokomo, saying the money would go toward expanding and equipping a factory for production of a new engine.

Kokomo Mayor Tyler Moore and Howard County Republican Party Chairwoman Jamie Bolser have condemned recently-unearthed Facebook posts made in 2015 by a Kokomo city councilman, calling them “extremely disturbing” and “reprehensible.”