Some Indiana counties have more than double the judicial officers needed to handle court cases, while others are understaffed, according to the state’s most recent weighted caseload report.
The statement of purpose pitches the group as “composed of subject matter experts and professionals” covering agriculture, small business, defense development and legislative oversight.
The Chamber of Commerce study found that Indiana’s total tax burden—state and local—has been consistently less than the U.S. average.
Full House Resorts says Rising Star Casino Resort, in the Indiana city of Rising Sun, is the worst-performing location in its portfolio and it wants to move it to another location 150 miles away.
The state aims to use AI to help Hoosiers find information more easily. But, as members of th state Artificial Intelligence Task Force noted on Wednesday, there are privacy, cybersecurity, contract and cost concerns to tackle along the way.
The commercial lending program targets Hoosier businesses, not-for-profits and governments to help lower their energy costs.
A federal appeals court on Friday stayed an injunction blocking enforcement of an Indiana law requiring pornography websites to verify user ages.
More than half of Indiana’s 92 counties are considered “legal deserts,” defined as less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents, according to the American Bar Association.
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging the state’s new university “intellectual diversity” requirements are unconstitutionally vague, and declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the new law.
A Lake County judge on Monday declined to dismiss a long-pending lawsuit waged by the city of Gary against a range of gun manufacturers and dealers despite a state law designed to end it.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jennifer McCormick on Monday denounced an ongoing high school diploma redesign as “dismantling” educational rigor in favor of filling positions at Hoosier companies facing worker shortages.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a South Bend native, said the nation has entered a “manufacturing renaissance.”
Comptroller Elise Nieshalla and Treasurer Daniel Elliott praised the pension system’s “speedy action” following 2023 legislation requiring divestment.
Agriinstitute, a Danville-based agricultural advocacy group, will host the Aug. 13 debate. It’s scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at the Indiana State Fairgrounds’ Purdue Extension Building.
The agency will kick its pilot off Aug. 14 in Hancock County’s Interstate 70 construction zone and plans to add other sites to the program “over time,” it said.
DEI efforts remain popular with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and some prominent members of the Hoosier business community even as companies elsewhere back away from what has become a culture war flashpoint.
The consolidated city-county recorded a net loss of about 8,000 residents between 2020 and 2023, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau data.
Chief of Staff Aaron Atwell—who has also worked as DCS’ chief financial officer—has been offered a job as the chief financial officer of The Villages, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit child and family service provider.
The national “Internet for All” initiative, dubbed the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD, program, was created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
About a dozen Hoosier communities will split $51 million in state funding for public infrastructure set to support construction of 2,400 homes.
