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The six fire departments in Brown County are solely volunteer-run.
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Follow WTIU’s production team to California as they document Gene Stratton-Porter’s pioneering work in early Hollywood, from Catalina Island to San Juan Capistrano. This behind-the-scenes update from producer Todd Gould highlights new interviews, historic locations, and ongoing restoration efforts for Music of the Wild, premiering November 2026.
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Rania Matar’s photography is shaped by Lebanon’s history; Common Ground Films makes movies that are hard to fund; and old Atari games turn up in a landfill.
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You'd think that residents of Indiana would be known as Indianans or Indianians. Nope. They’re called Hoosiers. But what does this Midwest moniker mean? And where did it come from?
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Mexican migrants to the Calumet Region in the 1920s began to form their own fraternal benefit societies, already popular in their native country.
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jayantha/Adobe StockPoet Daniel Lassell reads “Llama,” “Ritter Park Cabin,” “Frame [Like a resurrected body],” “Downward Rooms,” and “Frame Inside a Frame [In the underworld].”
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How should universities rethink teaching, policy, and student learning in a world where AI is reshaping the classroom?
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Learn about past theories on the nature of our closest star with today's A Moment of Science!
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A survey of songs from the American Songbook about dancing.
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Submit your responses for tonight's game. Try bonus trivia challenges or get helpful hints. Listen to the calliope
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The Arundel Psalter MS 83 II, (a.k.a, Psalter of Robert de Lisle), c. 1310./British LibraryWe're exploring how Renaissance musicians captured the sounds of animals in their music as we take a trip through a musical zoo. Along the way, we’ll hear the beautiful calls of the Nightingale, see the mighty crocodile, and hear a choir of all the animals singing together.
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In the 1940s a young jazz singer with a four-octave range and bebop chops burst onto the big-band scene with Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine before going on to establish herself as a solo star.
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Braun announces effort to bring artificial intelligence into Indiana businesses. It's not clear how it will work. -
Compliance checks of Indiana childcare providers come back clean. -
Indiana's child care office will begin enrolling new families in the state's CCDF voucher program in late May, using $200 million in emergency funding. -
The center's 15 volunteers escort hundreds of visitors, fetch lab results and push paperwork. Volunteers also comfort people during tough times. Seven of them have survived cancer. -
While no longer in use today, most people are still familiar with the mid-Atlantic accent of the past. What led to this particular form of pronunciation, and why isn't it around today? -
WFIU/WTIU News interviewed incumbent Matt Pierce and challenger Liliana Young last month. -
National Weather Service officials sent teams to survey the damage from Monday’s severe weather. -
Levi Combs was charged with two misdemeanors, driving while intoxicated endangering a person and driving a vehicle while having a blood-alcohol concentration of .15 or higher. -
Monroe County is turning out to vote early in numbers outpacing past primary midterm elections. -
Some patients were transferred to other facilities.
