In this week’s IN Nature WFHB’s Julianna Dailey discusses the Ruffed Grouse.

In today’s feature report, Bassler tells WFHB he has previously sponsored legislation aimed at preserving ten to thirty percent of state forests from logging. With much of his district including areas of state forest, Bassler says Senate Bill six-ten is a different approach to his previous conservation bills, which didn’t make it out of the state’s Natural Resources Commission. 

In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news WFHB’s Don Geyra and Tod Wicks report on the anticipation of a chronic wasting disease that affects deer, elk, and moose migrating to Indiana, the world government and corporate leaders meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the week of January 21, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and last year being the fourth-warmest for …

In this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower explores mushrooms in space, following the success of fungi spores hitching interstellar rides on meteors, as well as traveling into orbit on the skin of human astronauts.

In the recent weeks, The Herald-Times was sold to Gatehouse Media. Voices In The Street’s Isaak Gonzalez went out to ask area listeners if they have subscriptions to newspapers, and if not, how they get their news.

The County Council signed a letter to the Hoosier National Forest’s district ranger, asking for broader public discussion of the pending Houston South project. The project calls for logging of approximately four thousand acres within the Hoosier National Forest. Environmental groups say the project poses serious risks to the Lake Monroe watershed, which supplies drinking water to Monroe County. Yesterday, …

Shalom Community Center in Bloomington received hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a new Housing First development.  Executive Director Forrest Gilmore said the Davis Homes are the latest Housing First development, aimed at reducing area homelessness. The Davis Homes Apartments Initiative received a $322,000 Federal grant from Housing and Urban Development on Friday.  Davis Homes Apartments are expected to be in development …

National Endowment for the Arts Announces $27 Million in Grants; HUD to Fund New Shalom Development; Monroe County Council Approves Ongoing Funding for Harm Reduction Program; Council Supports Shalom Center Weekend Operations; Monroe County Ask For More Conversation about Hoosier Logging; Information Session Held Tonight on North-West side Road Project Proposal. FEATURE William Hosea, Chair of the Board of Commissioners …

Welcome to Part Two of our Love Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we have a discussion between Hibah Butt and Joyce Lam, Hearabouts producers and Indiana University students, about love in response to …

Scammers and fraudulent contractors are in the area, following severe weather; and a million victims over the past three years have lost $1 billion by ‘love interests.’ Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.