Indiana Dunes National Park

Lakeshore Public Media host Dee Dotson sits down with Portage Mayor Austin Bonta.

Indiana's second shipwreck nature preserve will be dedicated this week. The wreckage of the Muskegon is located in Lake Michigan about a quarter mile offshore from Mount Baldy, in 30 to 35 feet of water, according to Indiana Dunes National Park officials.

Indiana Dunes National Park will soon have a new leader. The National Park Service says it's selected Jason Taylor as the park's next superintendent.

Efforts to bring an Indigenous Cultural Trail to the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center may get a boost through "crowdgranting."

The Indiana Dunes National Park will receive $16 M for much needed park repairs, two local nonprofit organizations will receive funding to host humanities projects and the 12th Annual Gary International Black Film Festival kicks off this week.

The Indiana Dunes National Park will receive $16 million from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to put toward improvements and upgrades through the first two years of funding from the Great American Outdoors Act.

Indiana Dunes National Park volunteer Rob Albrecht-Mallinger is the national recipient of the National Park Service's George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service.

The Indiana Dunes National Park received $16 million for deferred maintenance projects through the Great American Outdoors Act. And environmental advocacy groups filed suit against the EPA to close close a regulatory loophole that left about half of the coal ash waste in the U.S. exempt from federal health protections. Representatives from NIPSCO and JustTransition NWI are on Regionally Speaking to discuss coal ash removal at the Michigan City Generating Station.

The ACLU of Indiana and Planned Parenthood have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Indiana's near-total ban on abortions. Lakeshore Public Radio's Dee Dotson speaks with Indiana Dunes National Park Volunteer Manager Jim Whitenack about a national recognition for one of the park's volunteers.

Tourism is booming in Porter County.