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Official filings on Wednesday mean that Monroe County voters in the 2024 Democratic Party primary might have choices in both of the county commissioner races that are up for election this year. Previously announced was District 2 county commissioner Julie Thomas’s intent to seek re-election and Peter Iversen’s

In a short news release issued on Tuesday  evening (Jan. 9), Bloomington’s police department has reported that it is investigating an apparent afternoon shooting. Inside a tent in a wooded area near Wheeler Mission on the west side of town, responding officers found a 52-year-old man with what appeared

The Bloomington city council members who were sworn in on Jan. 1 have a chance to chart a course for transparency that could distinguish them from the group who were sworn in four years ago. If the 2024 edition of the city council managed to get through the first two

In late 2007, Bloomington’s then-chief of police Mike Hostetler was set to retire at the end of the year. Bloomington’s fire chief at the time was Roger Kerr, who was serving as interim chief, to fill the vacancy left by Jeff Barlow, who left for a fire chief

The Indiana Center for Recovery would like to build two group home facilities in central Bloomington, one on the north side of West 1st Street, and the other on the south side. The facilities would be used for treating patients with substance use disorders and mental and behavioral health conditions.

The issuance of an RFQ (request for qualifications) for a “construction manager as contractor” for the convention center expansion project will be one of the first actions considered in the new year by Monroe County’s capital improvement board of managers (CIB). The issuance of such an RFQ, with a