Some say water has no flavor, but the Alliance of Indiana Rural Water begs to differ. It has just named Fort Wayne City Utilities' product as the best-tasting water in the state. The award enters Fort Wayne’s water in the "Great American Water Taste Test" national competition in Washington, ...

The city's office of Housing and Neighborhood Services has received a $680,000 grant to remediate lead paint in older homes and will partner with the Allen County Department of Health to identify children with elevated blood lead levels and remediate lead paint in the homes in which they live ...

Courtesy of AWS Foundation, Citilink will operate fare-free on Election Day, Nov. 6, to help make sure that everyone has a ride to go vote. To vote you must have registered prior to Oct. 9; have your Indiana driver’s license or identification card; and know where to go. Many polling ...

The Allen County Neighborhoods Association will hold its quarterly meeting Oct. 25 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the Omni Room of Citizens Square, 200 E. Berry St. Local attorneys Robert Eherenman and Henry Najdeski will discuss legal issues that neighborhood associations face and answer questions, ...

Plans for several improvements in eastern Allen County apparently will get a $2 million boost from County Council Thursday. That's when council is scheduled to consider a resolution that would pledge $400,000 each year from 2019 to 2023 in support of the New Allen Alliance's "East Allen's ...

The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum has been named a "Prime Site" by Facilities & Event Management Magazine for the 18th consecutive year. Members of the selection committee are industry executives who are directly involved in site selection, including promoters, booking agents and event ...

In two separate 6-3 votes, City Council Tuesday approved a total of $13.5 million for the Electric Works project — a make-or-break step in developers' quest for $65 million in local public funding for the $250 million redevelopment of the former General Electric campus. The votes were ...

Just hours before a crucial City Council vote that could determine the project's future, Electric Works has received a major boost from Parkview Health. Developers RTM Ventures and the local health-care network Tuesday announced Parkview has agreed to a 10-year lease that would bring a ...

It's been eight months since City Council voted 7-2 in favor of a non-binding resolution suggesting its willingness to provide millions of dollars to the massive Electric Works project. But talk is cheap; action is not only expensive but difficult — especially when Tuesday's consideration ...

Program and News Director Kayla Blakeslee will succeed the late Charley Butcher as host of WOWO's Fort Wayne’s Morning News program, the radio station announced Tuesday. Blakeslee has served as WOWO’s program director for the past two years and during her earlier years at WOWO she served ...

U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., who took a key and prominent role in the recent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be the keynote speaker at the Allen County Republican Party's annual Reagan Bean Dinner Nov. 1. The sold-out event will begin with a VIP reception at ...

The Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory is in need of donated evergreen trees for the Holiday Garden Exhibit “Victorian Christmas,” which will run Nov. 17-Jan. 6. Trees need to be healthy looking from top to bottom and around all sides of the tree. Especially needed are evergreen ...

The group "In Memory of Col. Sion Bass" will host its fifth annual event Nov. 10 from noon to 5 p.m. at Faith Presbyterian Church, 1616 W. Main St. The event will make clothing and household goods available to veterans in need free of charge. Donations are needed and should be brought to the ...

The Northern Indiana Passenger Rail Association (NIPRA) is scheduling four public meetings to discuss recent work completed and the next steps in securing funding for a Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus passenger rail line. A meeting will be held in Fort Wayne Oct. 24 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at ...

In preparation for winter, City Utilities will make annual adjustments to river levels beginning this weekend. In order to remove the flashboards at the St. Joseph Dam, St. Joseph River north of the dam will be temporarily lowered beginning at midnight on Saturday. Oct. 20, allowing the ...

One City Council member who has supported Electric Works in the past says he will oppose developers' request for $10 million in Legacy funds unless the request is approved as a loan, not a grant. In a statement Monday, Russ Jehl, R-2nd, said he has "advocated for an open and transparent ...

It probably would be a stretch to suggest a new high-profile movie about the first man to walk on the moon would not exist had the subject of the film and the book on which it is based not grown up within 60 miles of each other. But the proximity between Fort Wayne and Wapakoneta, Ohio, ...

More than a year after Allen County's homeland security director suggested the need to evaluate the effectiveness and necessity of the county's 54 warning sirens, officials are poised to make that happen at a cost of $28,000. The Allen County Commissioners Friday were expected to hire the ...

The city of Fort Wayne's 311 call center will now be open from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, with two members of its team taking calls. These additional hours are intended to help provide residents with more opportunities to get in touch with the city in order to address problems with city ...