Portage

Portage officials said they can't cover paychecks on Dec. 31 and the money won’t be available until Jan. 3.

U.S. Steel says a northwest Indiana plant’s discharge of elevated levels of iron were the cause of an orange plume that entered a Lake Michigan tributary.

An unknown orange substance from the U.S. Steel plant in Portage was found leaking into a Lake Michigan tributary on Sunday evening.