Dave Askins

Around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, a thunderstorm packing winds that were reported to the National Weather Service as gusting up to 78 mph smacked into Monroe County from the west. The storm left at least 45,000 electric utilities customers without power, once the nearly 2,000 South Central

Randy Cassady announced on Tuesday that he will appear on the Nov. 5 general election ballot as a Republican candidate for District 2 Monroe County commissioner. Cassady, owner of the local electrical company that bears his family’s name, will be competing for the seat with incumbent Democrat Julie Thomas,

Last Tuesday’s monthly meeting of Bloomington Transit’s board included the first post-pandemic report that has not shown significant ridership growth in the most recent month’s year-over-year numbers. In May 2024, BT gave 103,263 fixed-route rides, compared to 103,216 rides in May 2023. That’s still

Close to 170 people packed into the Olcott Young Room of the Monroe Convention Center in downtown Bloomington on Thursday night, for a field hearing on Duke Energy’s case to increase electricity rates. That’s a big number, because it’s the maximum occupancy for the room under the

This year, Monroe County should enact a corrections local income tax (LIT) at the full 0.2 percent rate that’s allowed by state law, according to Greg Guerrettaz with Financial Services Group (FSG). Guerrettaz was speaking at a Friday morning meeting of the Monroe County council’s long-term finance

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in May 2024. Of the 115 places that were inspected in May, 48 (42 percent) had no violations. Recording at least one critical violation were another 49 establishments. Recording at least one