Fair Oaks Dairy Farm will build a new $70 million bottling plant in Newton County. The plant will eventually employ nearly 60 people.

Top northwest Indiana economic development officials met Tuesday under the banner of the Chesterton/Duneland Chamber of Commerce to try to revive a regional approach to economic development.

Porter County Commissioners have approved the county’s first-ever regulations on wind power systems. According to a report released yesterday by the National Resources Defense Council, Indiana could fill up 12.5 percent of its own energy needs with wind power.

The first Porter County property tax bills, which were supposed to be mailed out in May, might finally get out in November.

LaPorte County has lassoed $2.2 million in stimulus cash for a trio or road projects.