in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina, File) Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, left, and team captain Clem Crowe watch the team practice in 1925. (AP Photo/File) Notre Dame’s head coach Lou Holtz and the Fighting Irish walk onto the field ...

Ever since 1913, when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic school based in South Bend, Indiana, pull off a stunner by beating Army, Notre Dame has stood as one of the main shapers of college football. “They were really the first ‘America ...

New attorney Agostino said he'd withdraw from lawsuit filed against school corporation. Corbett denied connection to "police tapes" case.

The History Museum features the Oliver family's mansion, Copshaholm, local history exhibits, a Notre Dame gallery and more for the South Bend region.

Ohio State's national championship victory provided a fitting ending to an inaugural 12-team Playoff that accomplished everything it was designed to do.

Madison Hayes had 19 points and 11 rebounds, Aziaha James scored 20 points, and they teamed up for the game’s final six points in No. 21

But evolution is also a choice. The dinosaurs didn't have to walk into the tar pits. And college football programs -- even old-timers such as Ohio State and Notre Dame -- don't have to walk into the quicksand of mediocrity, led there by the blinders of obligation to keep on keeping on the same way that Knute Rockne and Woody Hayes did.

Between Touchdown Jesus, "Win One for the Gipper," Rudy, and, yes, even the forward pass, there are those who believe football wouldn't quite be football without Notre Dame.

I spoke to Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman about destiny. Now his Irish are playing for the national champinship. And there's more to the story.

With the Fighting Irish waking up the echoes and playing for a title again after a generation-long retreat from the limelight, now might be the perfect time to admit it — maybe they were right.

A large-scale forest restoration project southeast of Bend is planned to start in May, cutting off some 34,600 acres of the Deschutes National Forest for at least a year.

AG Todd Rokita files suit against the South Bend Sheriff and county police department for "refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities."