Indiana's Tallest Outdoor Decorated Christmas Tree

New K-9 troopers are coming to northern Indiana. Troopers Benjamin Beers, William Carlson and Logan Hensley all recently graduated from the Indiana State Police K-9 Academy. They'll be joined by their K-9 partners Zero, Cooper and Kai respectively. The teams all completed over 400 hours of training together over 12...

A great way to save money on college is through scholarships. According to the Education Data Initiative, over 1.7 million scholarships are awarded annually. The data also shows that private sources award over $7.4 billion in scholarship money annually. This money can help lower the cost of college for students...

Despite Mother Nature telling us it is winter-time, farming season is on the mind for growers all year long. Swings in supply and demand, as well as the weather, determine a good season from a not-so-good one. Much of southwest Michigan's economy is grounded in farming. Crops like grapes and...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Some South Bend high school students put in the work, and now they are getting the reward. Riley High School Computer Science and Engineering students applied for, and won, a $26,000 grant from the United Way of St. Joseph County and Project Lead the Way.

ELKHART, Ind. (WSBT) — Oaklawn Psychiatric Center of Elkhart will be closed Wednesday. A security threat prompted its closure Monday and Tuesday. According to Oaklawn's Facebook page, the Goshen, South Bend and Mishawaka campuses will remain open. Anyone who planned to go to the Elkhart location for an open...

South Bend. Ind. (WSBT) — Some organizations in Michiana believe there's more to the story on why last Monday's South Bend Common Council meeting was cancelled. The LaSalle Park Neighborhood Alliance Association, Black Lives Matter South Bend, and the Michiana Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression are calling for an investigation as to why it was cancelled.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — You can get a good dinner and help a great cause this week. It's Winter Restaurant Week. Approximately 10% of the proceeds for every meal will be donated to Beacon Children's Hospital. WSBT 22 photojournalist Mark Honaker gives us a look at the tradition.

STEVENSVILLE, Mich. (WSBT) — Lakeshore Public Schools is acquiring nearly 20 acres of land, in a more than quarter of a million-dollar purchase to help the district, to help the district grow. Superintendent Greg Eding says he is thrilled about the acquisition. For years, it looked like the plot...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — The St. Joseph County Commission will vote on abolishing the voter registration board Tuesday evening. This is after the vote was pushed back earlier this month. If the voter registration board is abolished, voter registration duties would be transferred to the County Clerk. Supporters...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — A large fire on the west side of downtown South Bend required local fire crews to act quickly. The fire started at CB Specialist, an automotive electronics installer on Lincoln Way West. Battalion chief Bob Means says while there is not a lot of...

Elkhart, IN (WSBT) — Oaklawn's Elkhart campus was closed, out of an abundance of caution, for 3 days citing a security threat. In Facebook posts they said their Elkhart campus would be closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. They said they have been working with Elkhart Police to determine the next step.

ELKHART, Ind. (WSBT) — A basement fire in an empty downtown Elkhart office building early Wednesday morning caused an estimated quarter-million dollars in damage. Elkhart Firefighters responding to an alarm on West Franklin Street found smoke leaking into that building from the abandoned former Chase Bank building next door.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — The number of guns confiscated at the South Bend International Airport more than doubled last year. Our partners at the South Bend Tribune report TSA found 11 guns in carry-on bags. This is up from five the previous two years. A spokesperson says it...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Black Lives Matter South Bend held a prayer vigil following the release of the Tyre Nichols body camera footage. About 20 people gathered at St. Paul Bethel Baptist Church to pray for Tyre and his family. The event was open to the public and...

Plymouth Mayor Mark Senter will not run for re-election next year. He's served as mayor since 2008 after working for the Indiana State Police for 28 years. Senter tells WSBT 22 First in the Morning anchor Bob Montgomery that he hasn't made the official announcement but he doesn't plan to run again.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — The Unity Gardens in South Bend are going mobile!. They just revealed their mobile gardening bus: the Edgy Veggie. The bus will be a way to spread fresh vegetables to underserved people in the area. The bus will also be a classroom to teach...

STARKE COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Part of State Road 23 is now open in Starke County, after being closed due to a fire. The call came in around 4:15 p.m. CST, for a residential fire about a mile and a half north of State Road 8, a little east of Knox.

ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Elkhart Community Schools kicked off its jobs fair Tuesday. The goal is to fill teaching and non-teaching positions in the district. On-site interviews will be held for support roles including classroom assistants, building services, custodians, bus drivers, cafeteria staff, and secretarial staff. “ECS is...

Charges have been filed against a Michigan City man in a deadly crash involving a pedestrian near the University of Notre Dame last September. Court documents say Donald Culpepper allegedly had methamphetamine and THC in his system when he hit Thomas Keyser with his vehicle. Culpepper was charged with one...

COLOMA, Mich. (WSBT) — Thousands of people in the Coloma area are left in the cold and dark due to a power outage that started early Tuesday morning. Indiana Michigan Power's outage map shows nearly 5,000 customers are without power in the Coloma and Watervliet area. Coloma schools were...