In the News
Community members gathered at Stoney Run County Park on Memorial Day for the annual service hosted there by the Lake County Parks & Recreation Department. This event honored the sacrifices of those who gave their lives in service to our nation with moments of reflection at the park’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Patty Stovall has been breaking the silence and shattering the stigma that surrounds substance use for years now. Her effort took another meaningful step forward Saturday afternoon.
Sounds of Sarah organized its third rendition of the "We Fight Together" drug poisoning and overdose 3K walk and run in Highland's Wicker Park, drawing scores of people, many of whom have lost family members killed by drugs.
Northwest Indiana Congressman Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, had no qualms about voting Wednesday against the federal spending legislation Republican President Donald Trump has dubbed the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill."
"I opposed the House Republican reconciliation legislation because it prioritizes tax breaks for the wealthy at the cruel expense of seniors, veterans, children and working families," Mrvan said.
Congressman Frank J. Mrvan has rescheduled for May 29 a series of town hall-style events to listen to the needs of Northwest Indiana residents and update them on what he's accomplished on their behalf in the U.S. House.
The Highland Democrat originally planned to appear at three community forums April 24 at locations in Lake, Porter and northwest LaPorte counties. Mrvan's attendance was canceled at the last minute due to illness.
The times and locations for the May 29 rescheduled community forums are:
Congressman Frank J. Mrvan announced the rescheduled Community Conversations that will be held throughout Indiana’s First Congressional District on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
The fate of a $1 billion Midwestern hydrogen hub that would include a hydrogen plant in Whiting is up in the air after a new administration took over, but U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, continues the push to bring it to Northwest Indiana.
As the future of the Northwest Indiana hydrogen hub project hangs in the balance, U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, questioned the energy secretary about its next steps.
Mrvan asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright Wednesday in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development hearing about the criteria for review and status of the Northwest hydrogen hub project.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, and U.S. Sen Jim Banks, R-Indiana, are lobbying for a massive hydrogen hub that is expected to be one of the largest construction projects in Region history if it goes forward, bringing billions of dollars in investment and employing more than 16,000 construction workers for years.
U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, and Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, have sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury, asking for the nation’s owned and operated steel industry to be preserved.
“We write to express our belief that a strong, domestically owned and operated American steel industry is vital to our national security,” said the letter to Secretary Scott Bessent. “If American steel production does not remain robust in peacetime, we risk unreliable supplies of critical steel products to the military in wartime.”
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is now taking a second look at Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. It has been a protracted saga that has resulted in big promises, barbed threats, extensive litigation and bipartisan political opposition.