Dave Askins

When some Bloomington residents came together to engage the public process connected to the city’s rezoning effort a couple of years ago, they called themselves the Hopewell Group. They took the moniker from the hospital that was opened about 120 years ago by the Local Council of Women at

The winter storm that closed down Bloomington and Monroe County government offices on Thursday and Friday left around 5 inches of snow on top of a layer of frozen crud that began falling late on Wednesday. The National Weather Service snowfall map  put Bloomington in the 4-to-6-inch

Since Bloomington’s most recently updated unified development ordinance (UDO) was signed into law by mayor John Hamilton on July 12 last year, no conditional use applications have been filed to build duplexes in older residential neighborhoods. That was the report to the Bloomington city council’s Wednesday meeting by

City of Bloomington public works drivers were out plowing streets early Thursday morning. Bus drivers for Bloomington Transit and Indiana University transportation were also plying their routes. BT has cancelled some runs and altered some routes, but drivers are still on the job today. The basic message for the rest

Monroe County is under a travel warning as of 4:50 a.m. Thursday morning. Travel is restricted to emergency management workers. That means you should not be out on the roads unless you are an emergency management worker. If you are in a dire circumstance (but not a 911

On Wednesday, the city of Bloomington released a 38-page report from the Novak Consulting Group with recommendations on revising the structure of the city’s 49 different boards and commissions and improving the way their work is supported. The report was presented on Wednesday night to Bloomington’s city