Coroner John White is presiding over a sad tally in this northern Indiana county, tracking rising numbers of suicides he believes are linked to the lingering recession. Elkhart may be a harbinger of deadly increases in other hard-hit areas.

Hamstrung by an ailing RV industry, Elkhart is seeing firsthand the monumental task of clawing back from such a big economic hit amid a difficult recession.

In hard-hit Elkhart, Ind., and across the nation,  education experts see a bright spot in the dismal downturn: more students may opt to stay in – or return to – school.

Hundreds of families are losing their homes to foreclosure in Elkhart County, Ind. But the crisis here, more so than in the big U.S. foreclosure hotspots, appears driven by job losses. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.

Elkhart, Ind., workers who have been on strike for three years against a company that makes musical instruments don't expect much sympathy in an  area with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. Msnbc's Mike Stuckey reports.

With the virtual collapse of the recreational vehicle  industry, long the mainstay of the Elkhart, Ind. economy, the city needs to re-create itself and generate jobs.  By msnbc.com's Kari Huus.

A new economic index  shows that the recession spread to 93 percent of the metro areas in the U.S. by the end of January. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports on the Adversity Index from Moody's Economy.com and msnbc.com.

Elkhart County, Ind., bills itself the 'RV capitol of the world,' but the economic downturn is crippling the industry. Ameri-Camp RV is the latest to go on the auction block.

In this job-starved city that President Barack Obama visited last month, hundreds of volunteers — and an agency that specializes in handing out food — worked together Tuesday to feed 5,200 hungry families.