The owners of more than 20 polluted industrial sites in Indianapolis are hiding behind the legal protections of a state-run voluntary program to delay cleanup, Mayor Greg Ballard alleges in a letter to state regulators.
The odds the Indianapolis City-County Council will approve plans for a new criminal justice center this year are tanking fast.
A third defendant in an alleged kickback scheme involving the Indy Land Bank has pleaded guilty on the eve of a trial set for the first week of March.
There aren’t two political parties in Carmel, but there are two camps. One aligns with five-term Mayor Jim Brainard. The other, well, they say it isn’t personal.
Plans to build a gas station and convenience store on the site of the historic church received a positive recommendation Thursday, moving the matter to the Metropolitan Development Commission next month.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission on Wednesday shot down the bulk of a plan by Indianapolis Power & Light to charge ratepayers $16 million for costs involving a proposed all-electric car-sharing service called BlueIndy.
Delays by the City-County Council could push the closing of a $1.6 billion deal for a new criminal justice complex until mid-May, just under the wire to preserve prices in the preferred bid.
A decision on whether to provide more than $18 million in city incentives to consumer review service Angie's List was delayed Monday night by a City-County Council committee.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard spent almost as much in campaign funds as he raised last year while he contemplated whether to seek a third term. More than half of his spending went to political consultants.
Local Republicans are hoping history repeats itself with their new candidate to replace Mayor Greg Ballard. Chuck Brewer, a decorated Iraq War veteran and the owner of two downtown restaurants, announced his candidacy Monday.
A Republican primary contest is shaping up in the Indianapolis mayoral election, with Deputy Mayor Olgen Williams' announcement that he intends to run.
The Department of Public Safety estimates $1.5 million is needed to address findings that the Indianapolis Animal Care and Control shelter is unsanitary, understaffed and underfunded.
Democrat Joe Hogsett hopes his hefty first round of fundraising—including at least three donors of at least $100,000 each—will prove imposing to any Republican challengers in the wings for Indianapolis mayor.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard has led Carmel since 1996, and John Ditslear has led Noblesville since 2004.
Marc Lotter says he doesn’t know yet where he will land. He has been Mayor Greg Ballard’s communications director since November 2010.
Redevelopment of the former General Motors Stamping Plant site west of downtown began taking shape in 2014, culminating in December with the city’s selection of a Paris company to build a criminal justice center on the property.
The two-term mayor, who came to office as a dark horse, went against internal pressure and opted not to seek a third term, setting off speculation about which Republican would step forward to challenge former U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett.
No prominent Republicans have started campaigns to replace Mayor Greg Ballard, who announced month that he wouldn't seek election to a third term in 2015.
WMB Heartland Justice Partners, which beat out two other finalists, will require the city to pay $46.8 million a year, $3.2 million less than the ceiling the city set.
Indianapolis planners say the city needs another $7.1 million to prepare the former Central State Hospital campus for redevelopment, but they’re out of resources. A proposal to raise those funds via a new tax-increment financing district around the 142-acre site is moving through the Indianapolis City-County Council with bipartisan support.
