White House woos GOP lawmakers with revised health care bill
Republicans entertained a fresh White House offer to revise the party's failed health care bill Tuesday as the GOP tried to resuscitate the measure that crashed less than two weeks ago.
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Medical device software firm plans to add 120 employees
Indianapolis-based software company Greenlight.guru has moved operations from one downtown facility to another to accommodate expansion.
Indiana lawmakers OK letting Statehouse staffers carry guns
The Senate voted 39-7 to approve changes made in the House, sending the bill to the governor’s desk.
Ricker’s would get reprieve—for now—under measure approved by House panel
The convenience store chain would be able to keep the permits that two locations use to sell cold carryout beer—a hot-button issue for Indiana liquor stores. Renewing the permits might be trickier.
Donnelly to back Gorsuch nomination to Supreme Court
Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly joins two other moderate Democrats who are backing Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Holcomb: State won’t seek new bidder to replace failed Agile cell tower deal
The state will instead pursue individual leases of state cell towers.
City reaps $1.2M from Conrad hotel investment
Here’s a little-known fact: The city of Indianapolis has an ownership stake in two of downtown’s most luxurious hotels and has received nearly $1.2 million so far from one of the investments.
As debate rages over pre-K funding, families already in program see gains
Fifty-one percent of respondents in an early state evaluation of the pre-K program said their families had been able to increase their work or school hours while their children participated in the program.
Analysts: Anthem likely to pull back from Obamacare in 2018
An exit by Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. could be devastating to the health care law, limiting coverage options for consumers.
NCAA to review North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ deal
NCAA President Mark Emmert told reporters Thursday that the association’s board of governors will have to discuss the new legislation before deciding whether they’re comfortable hosting neutral-site championships in the state again.
Halting cold beer sales at Ricker’s trickier than expected
A top Indiana Republican is suggesting the Legislature may not be able to stop the convenience store chain Ricker's from selling cold beer before the end of session.
Senate’s $32.1B budget eschews cigarette tax hike
An Indiana Senate panel on Thursday advanced a two-year state budget plan with significant differences in funding for roads, entrepreneurship and education from the House’s plan.
Senate education panel advances ISTEP proposal, kills two other bills
The Senate Education Committee finished its work for the year Wednesday by killing two bills and passing four, including an amended version of a bill to overhaul the state testing system.
Bill to close cold-beer sales loophole advanced by Senate panel
A legal loophole used by an Indiana convenience store chain to sell cold beer would be snapped shut under a proposal that was advanced Wednesday by the Senate Public Policy Committee.
Senate panel OKs bill that gives reprieve to failing voucher schools
A House education bill knocked by critics as reducing accountability for Indiana voucher schools cleared a Senate committee Wednesday.
Indiana House panel amends overhaul of troubled vaping law
The House panel’s changes address e-liquid labeling, including requiring an identifiable, trackable code and a nicotine warning.
Environmental groups vowing to fight Trump climate actions
Environmental groups that have hired scores of new lawyers in recent months are prepared to go to court to fight an order from President Donald Trump that eliminates many restrictions on fossil fuel production and would roll back plans to curb global warming.
Tech firm ClearScholar plans 31-employee expansion
The company, which develops student-engagement applications for universities, more than doubled its office space this month by moving operations across Monument Circle, from Circle Tower into the Lacy Building.
Layoffs loom as state moves on incentives to save other Carrier jobs
The IEDC approved a $7 million incentives package that requires Carrier to keep 1,069 jobs here, although the company is still sending hundreds of other jobs to Mexico.
Illinois struggling to rid itself of troubled lottery manager
Two governors tried to fire Northstar Lottery Group. But Northstar—a subsidiary of Gtech Corp., the parent company of Gtech Indiana, which manages the Hoosier Lottery—remains on the job more than two years later.