WFHB Local News Features

Indiana University president Michael McRobbie announces a plan to give “incentive grant” tuition rebates to in-state undergraduate students who maintain good grades. The announcement appears to be tied to state senator Luke Kenley’s threat to withhold capital project funding if IU does not rescind its recent tuition hike. Kenley is using his position as chair of the state budget committee …

The City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department unveils a new look for the former Bloomington SportsPlex, purchased by the city and renamed the “Twin Lakes Recreation Center”. IU men’s basketball coach Tom Crean and Bloomington native and basketball star Jared Jeffries of the New York Knicks were the celebrity guests at Saturday’s ribboncutting ceremony. We take you on-location to …

The Youth Services Bureau is a county shelter and counseling program that houses troubled teens. Monroe County Commissioners want to move YSB into the county court system. This will put the shelter into a different part of the county budget, under the leadership of juvenile court judges, and would make the shelter eligible for more grant money to expand its …

Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney Chris Gaal announces the creation of the new Sexual Assault Response Team designed to improve the community’s response to sexual assault incidents. For the last two years, Gaal has spearheaded an effort to draft a written protocol and led fundraising efforts to assist in the creation of a new Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program at Bloomington …

It’s Move-In Day for the 7,000 freshmen arriving in town, as Bloomington residence halls opened at 8 a.m. for these new IU students. Today IU President Michael McRobbie and Provost Karen Hanson greeted students and their families in McNutt, Briscoe and Foster residence halls, then presided over the official freshman induction ceremony at 3 p.m. Our news team went on-location …

Bloomington city officials have launched a new monthly talk show to explore B-town news and events. The half-hour program is called “Everybody’s Bloomington”, produced at the studios of our media partner CATS, Community Access Television Services. The latest episode features the two top figures in the mayor’s office of economic development: Danise Alano and Miah Michaelsen. We feature an excerpt …

The South Central Community Action Program and Monroe County United Ministries celebrate the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. That act, signed by President Lyndon Johnson, created community action agencies and several other War on Poverty programs. MCUM, then called the Christian Center, sponsored the origins of the Monroe County Community Action Agency. Community …

At least a hundred local residents revved their engines last night on the “Highway to Health Care,” a rock-n-roll themed RV tour promoting health insurance reform sponsored by the national labor union AFSCME. The RV pulled into the parking lot of Memorial Stadium last night outfitted as a mobile activism center, complete with on-board laptop computers, cell phones and postcards …

Exclusive audio from the U.S. Postal Service public meeting on a proposal to consolidate some local postal operations by closing a local facility and shifting its workload to Indianapolis. Bloomington postal workers say customer service would suffer, but postal official Lynn Smith, district manager of the greater Indiana area, promises that delivery times of local mail would NOT change. He …

Opponents of the Obama administration’s proposed healthcare reform proposals rally in Bloomington as part of the “Hands Off My Health Care” bus tour sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels. In the current campaign, labeled “Patients First”, it …