Dave Askins

Whenever there’s a 5-to-4 or 4-to-5 tally on the nine-member Bloomington city council, it’s become a pretty standard joke: Did the vote fall along party lines? It’s only funny because all nine members of the city council are Democrats. And the make-

A suspect in a late Tuesday afternoon shooting on Bloomington’s west side has been arrested in the town of Spencer, about 15 miles northwest of the city, according to a Bloomington police department (BPD) news release on Wednesday. About 8 hours after he is alleged to have shot a

Bloomington Transit will receive at least $3.8 million a year for the next five years from the city of Bloomington, under an interlocal agreement approved by BT’s five-member board at its final meeting of the year, on Dec. 20. The agreement still needs to win approval from

Even if  Bloomington and Monroe county government officials have recently been fighting like cats and dogs about topics like the convention center expansion, they have for several years settled into a pattern of uncontroversial cooperation for the sheltering of homeless animals. At its last meeting of the year, on Dec.

On a Christmas Day visit to Lake Monroe and some Bloomington area parks, The B Square did not observe a single partridge in a pear tree. Some other lesser birds were nonetheless spotted. More photos below. Photos: Bloomington, Indiana area (Dec. 25, 2022)

In Bloomington, Indiana, 2022 will be remembered as a White Christmas and a cold Christmas. But it won’t be the coldest on record for Bloomington, even if it will rank among the coldest. The coldest Christmas in Bloomington since 1895—when the period of record starts for the NOAA