Wanda Royal Torres brushes her hand across the roof of her husband’s car to show the fine, black soot that settles on her neighborhood from U.S. Steel Gary Works across the street. Steel mills in ...

Doctors, environmental groups and residents are trying to figure out if there is a causal connection between pollutants from the steel industry and rates of cancer in Gary, Indiana. Pollutants you can ...

Gary, Indiana, is home to three steel mills and one of America's largest Black populations. It also has some of the dirtiest air in the country, and residents who have been breathing it say they feel ...

Gary, Indiana was once a powerhouse of American steel, a booming “Magic City” that helped fuel the nation’s industrial rise ...

As long as Terry Steagall can remember, the environment in his hometown of Hammond, Indiana, and the surrounding area has been poor. So Steagall, who recently retired after 41 years at a local steel ...

An environmental group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a delay in air pollution rules for steel mills, arguing it puts neighboring communities outside the gates at risk.

People sometimes wait for years for the chance to get hired on at Northwest Indiana’s steel mills, where union jobs are seen as stable and high-paying. The Calumet Region’s steel mills report having ...

On either side of the impeccably refined and classically domed City Hall and courthouse buildings that make up the largely vacant civic core of Gary, Indiana, are two stark white modernist buildings.