A selection of the top feature photos in the Northwest Herald in 2025, by Shaw Local photographers.

A new year begins next week and with it a chance to get outdoors with friends and neighbors. Indiana’s state parks and lakes ...

The most recent of the five movies in The Purg e franchise, The Forever Purge is here to break all the rules. Set in Texas in ...

The holidays are supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but sometimes they can feel like a glorified version of ...

Congress faces year-end crunch on health care as premium spikes loom for 24 million Americans, with Republicans and Democrats ...

Practice-squad wide receiver Jalen Brooks, who has been with the team since Oct. 30, fumbled the ensuing kickoff and the ...

The Buffalo Bills marched into Gillette Stadium unwilling to hand over the AFC East to the New England Patriots.

Winter officially begins on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, marking the winter solstice — the shortest day and longest night of the year. That’s the moment when the Northern Hemisphere tilts farthest from the ...

The first day of winter in 2025 comes before Christmas. Christmas Day 2025 falls on a Thursday and is a federal holiday, while Christmas Eve is not. The 2026 Lunar New Year is on Feb. 17, and the ...

The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission ...

While temperatures are starting to take a plunge and holiday festivities are underway, we have yet to officially reach the winter season, at least in the astronomical calendar. The end of fall is ...

Besides colder temperatures and falling snow, the other signs of obvious signs of winter approaching are longer nights and shorter days as the winter solstice nears. Here's when and what to know about ...