Technology

BUCHANAN -- Vickers Engineering is undergoing a very nice growth spurt. Except it's not really a spurt. It's actually steady growth. And the growth will continue, according to Matt Tyler, CEO and president of Vickers Engineering. He said he expects to...

SOUTH BEND -- In the shadow of the Golden Dome, Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann said she found local business owners enthusiastic to have a dialogue with state officials. "Local business leaders said they saw an ability to work toward economic development...

Indiana's former governor is becoming a YouTube sensation. Mitch Daniels, now the president of Purdue University, appears in a new video promoting the school's engineering department. It's a parody of the song "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan...

SOUTH BEND – Can working on Legos as a kid help shape what your job is as an adult? Maybe some local middle school students will now consider careers in engineering after working with Notre Dame students and professional engineers to build a...

Just this past week, a major upgrade was completed on the National Weather Service Doppler radar. The technology that was previously used was developed over 20 years ago! What do these upgrades mean for you? One of the most sophisticated tools to...

A new effort in Michigan is aimed at cracking down on out-of-state cans, cans taken across state lines to take advantage of Michigan's generous 10 cent a can recycling refund, the highest of any state. Republican Representative Ken Kurtz of Coldwater...

SOUTH BEND -- "Raise your hand if you're a teacher in this area," state schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz told the audience in the Jordan Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame Saturday morning. A couple dozen hands went up. "Yeah, see!"...

SOUTH BEND -- Anne E. Huot says she knows the challenges faced by first-generation college students, because she was one herself. After growing up in Manchester, N.H., she and her six siblings were the first in their family to attend college. "I had a...

NILES -- Let there be light. It appears there will be more of the white variety at least in the city of Niles as current high-pressure sodium lamps are replaced with magnetic induction lamps. The Niles City Council started the ball rolling Monday night...

It’s a shocking statistic impacting lots of local families – last year in St. Joseph County, more people died from accidental drug overdoses than in car accidents.  Many of those deaths were caused by prescription drugs.  It’s a...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Campaign 2012 packed frantic suspense to the finish Tuesday, with Vice President Joe Biden flying unannounced up next to Republican Mitt Romney in battleground Ohio even as voters across the country were deciding who would win the...

Across Michigan, people are casting votes for dozens of races, including the White House, Senate, Congress and six highly-contentious ballot proposals. Here's what they're saying about why they cast their votes: — "He's going to take the country in...