SOUTH BEND — At midday Wednesday, Mayor James Mueller offered a surprising answer when asked about endorsing Pete Buttigieg, his childhood friend and former boss, for president.

Mayor James Mueller has just been sworn-in for his second term. And he has new goals and ambitions for South Bend heading into 2024.Mayor Mueller and other elec ...

The mayor of South Bend, Ind., just told his town his secret: He's gay. "I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay," Mayor Pete Buttigieg wrote ...

South Bend Common Council member Troy Warner, who supports a permanent supportive housing project that South Bend Heritage Foundation plans to build this spring in the Edison Park neighborhood ...

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, center left, with husband Chasten Buttigieg, greets supporters after announcing his run for president in the 2020 election at Studebaker Building 84 in downtown ...

South Bend Mayor James Mueller, center, and his wife Kellye Mitros, right, take a photo with Janet Holcomb, first lady of Indiana, during a private grand opening event at the Indiana Dinosaur ...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg name plate at his office in South Bend, Ind., Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. At 37, Pete Buttigieg is just a few years older than the minimum age required to serve as president of ...

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg launches presidential exploratory committee, could be nation's first openly gay nominee. The 37-year-old mayor joins a growing list of 2020 Democratic contenders.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg in downtown South Bend, Ind., in January, 2019. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg has based his presidential candidacy, in part, around the revival of South Bend that he's ...

Pete Buttigieg in his office last summer when he was still mayor of South Bend, Ind. Democratic rivals are now questioning whether being a small-city mayor is sufficient experience for the presidency.

With a drenching April rain dripping through the cracked roof of a former Studebaker automobile building on the edge of downtown, Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old, openly gay mayor of South Bend ...