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Companies must create customer, employee safety plans as part of reopening
The state is launching a marketplace for small businesses to help them acquire the face masks, sanitizer and other supplies they might need to reopen.
The state is launching a marketplace for small businesses to help them acquire the face masks, sanitizer and other supplies they might need to reopen.
A day after closing out its best month since 1987, the S&P 500 fell 2.8%. The slide gave the benchmark index its second straight weekly loss.
The FDA acted after preliminary results from a government-sponsored study showed that the drug, remdesivir, shortened the time to recovery by 31%, or about four days on average, for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Gov. Eric Holcomb on Friday released a five-stage “roadmap” for reopening Indiana. Here’s what’s in it.
In a new and lengthy executive order released Friday that goes into effect on Monday and lasts through May 23, numerous businesses will be able to reopen but with different levels of restrictions and in multiple stages.
Across Indiana, local health departments have been scrambling to keep up with the job of tracking, one patient at a time, the spread of the virus that has already claimed the lives of more than 900 Hoosiers.
Advocates agree that the federal and state moratoriums are helpful, but say renters will need more help long term. Even one missed rent payment can put low-income residents so far behind they can’t recover.
Stocks were down significantly in midday trading Friday after Amazon and other big companies laid out how the coronavirus pandemic is hitting their bottom lines.
IndyGo temporarily suspended fare collections March 29 to reduce interaction aboard buses.
The Indiana State Department of Health said Thursday that the cumulative death toll in the state rose to 1,062, up from 1,007 the previous day—an increase of 55.
The news was bad across the board: Production, new orders, hiring and export orders all fell faster in April than they did in March.
Plunging interest rates and volatile equity markets are creating a once-in-a-lifetime chance that’s keeping wealth advisers busy even as they work from home.
Waiters wearing plastic gloves and masks. Disposable menus. Family-only tables. Booth dividers. Eateries in several states are reopening under heavy restrictions.
The Republican-led Michigan Legislature refused Thursday to extend the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration and voted to authorize a lawsuit challenging Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s authority and actions to combat the pandemic.
Noting that state revenue is “going to diminish significantly,” IPS Board President Michael O’Connor said at Thursday’s board meeting that the district must “be prepared to make some very conservative, very difficult decisions about preparing for those cuts.”
NBA and NFL teams will face a considerable financial hit if they are forced to play with no fans in the stands, but, thanks to their lucrative TV contracts, it won’t knock them into the red.
Manufacturing giant 3M Co. alleges a Nevada company and its representatives tried to “perpetrate a false and deceptive price-gouging scheme” by offering to sell the state of Indiana respirators for $285 million to $14.25 billion.
The move comes as airlines big and small contemplate how to comply with social-distancing recommendations in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
A company official said it’s “preposterous” to think the company would reopen its malls, especially those in its home state, while stay-at-home orders are still in place.
Taylor Simpson says the coronavirus outbreak is “the perfect launchpad” for his Indianapolis startup, The Halo App. If that sounds cold, it’s not, he insists. Simpson explained that helping people has always been his firm’s primary mission. This month, in response to the pandemic, Simpson is putting his money where his mouth is